want to set down some landscape notions in an attempt to clear my head...
enfin, landscape, other than the behind-the-virgin stuff, began with the railways. (So Pete says and it makes sense) (Though the imaginary Dante illustrations should figure somewhere - Botticelli -)
Prosperous people took holidays and made paintings of them. Artists followed the money and made paintings for those that couldn't do their own.
Landscape became the extra window in the living room. Fashion. Then a vehicle for a type of art - cubism, fauvism, pointillism and whatever else. Courbet? Manet? Those interested in changing light -
THEN it carried a spiritual message - Vincent van G, Emily Carr, or so I suppose by the way they are interpreted. Nash? Palmer
After that I can only think of landscape as the behind-the-virgin again - resurrection in Cookham churchyard for example (not necessarily religious though) Stage sets. When do they become meaningful, what meaning can they hold? Without the meaningful foreground -
Will do some sensible research.
Feel slightly hung-over which I can't be - but didn't sleep so tired and ratty and really not happy.
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