English – Article writing
compare and contrast the two art works below
-talk about why do I choose these two works/artists and how they relate to the central theme of Caught Between the Brush and the Lens: 19th Century Landscape
Hermann Fuechsel (1833–1915)
Hudson River Above West Point
George Kendall Warren, From Trophy Point, West Point, Hudson River, c. 1867–1868, albumen print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Robert Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund
Here is the proposal of Caught Between the Brush and the Lens: 19th Century Landscape.
To give you a taste of what the theme about.
This exhibition will compare the 19th century works of landscape painters with early landscape photographs. In doing so, it will demonstrate how landscape paintings and photography influenced how people saw their surroundings and how the two mediums relate both stylistically and representationally. For example, within 19th century painting, the Hudson River School and French Impressionism both emphasized the beauty of surrounding landscape, but the former sought to elevate it to an idealistic and romanticized image while the latter depicted life as it was. The idealization of the former is further emphasized when compared to 19th century landscape photographs. The photographs will serve as contrasting, striking images that display the raw beauty of landscape without the distortion of ‘the artist’s lens.’ For centuries, the paint-brush dominated the world of artistic expression because it fulfilled the need to record what was seen while photography allowed for nearly immediate capturings of the fleeting moment. The new technology of the era merging into the world of traditional techniques from the masters created an artistic separation between what is and what was. The exhibition will dive into the views of the artists and their motivations behind the works that they produced and how their forms compare and contrast. When it came to landscapes, the introduction to photography re-awakened the idea of untouched nature as if the photographs made it all the more real to the public. Early Photographers like Francis Bedford were commissioned to produce photographs from ancient sites and he did so, capturing them in their most simplistic forms revealing an unromanticized scene to the world. This shift in the artist’s viewpoint from canvas to print defined the century in more ways than one.
