Landscape Drawing - Research Point - Looking at Artists

Looking at and researching different artists showed many styles to depict the landscape. The course material recommended that artists such as Durer, Lorrain and Lowry's works were used as examples.

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) The Pond in The Woods (1496)
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Durer was one of the first artists to realise the potential of watercolour paints. A German painter, possibly one of the greatest artists of Northern Renaissance.

In the above painting, The Pond in The Woods, Durer has shown explicit detail on the grass in the foreground. Other areas are left looking unfurnished. He creates a depth to the water by using the changes to the colour from a deep blue to a brown.

Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976) http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews
Industrial Landscape (1958)

Famous for his simplistic stylisation of poeple Lowry painted the working class within an urban landscape. Great care was used in the architectural detail but very little to show any weather conditions such as cloud or sun. This does however allow him to show the smog in his "Indrustrial Landscape" above which sold for £602,400 in June 2007.  

Gerald Coulson http://www.buy-fineart.com/
Evening Calm 

Gerald Coulson is an Emglish self taught artist who has been producing pieses of work for over 30 years. He is known for his milarty aircraft pictures with moody backgrounds and colourful skies. I was drawn to this piece of art due to the stillness and as the title the calm warm colour of the yellow sun.

David Hockney (1937) http://www.hockneypictures.com/
A Bigger Grand Canyon

Another English landscape artist. He is currently living in USA and working in a huge workshop which suits his very large scale pieces of art. The Royal Academy of Art hang Hockney's largest painting 'Bigger Trees Near Water' which measures 15 x 40 feet. All his work is big bold and bright.