Landscape Artist

The Snite Museum of Art is located at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA 46556. Telephone: 574-631-5466

Admission to the museum is free.

Visitor Parking Monday through Friday

A parking lot behind Legends of Notre Dame Restaurant and Alehouse Pub is available at all times. It can be accessed from the new Holy Cross Drive via a right turn from Notre Dame Avenue or left from the new Eddy/Juniper Road traveling north from Angela/Edison. There is a $2 fee you pay when leaving. There is also a small visitor section in the northeast corner of the large lot across the street from the Hesburgh Library.

The collection includes (this list is not complete):

• Native American

• Ethnographic

• European

• American

• Prints and Drawings

• Photography

• Modern & Contemporary

• Decorative Arts

• Museum Podcasts

The Snite Museum of Art features collections that place it among the finest university art museum in the nation. The Snite Museum of Art contains over 23,000 works representing many of the principal cultures and periods of world art history.

Current Exhibitions

October 28 - December 16, 2007: Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery

Ramior Rodriguez, artist and museum staff member, will interpret the traditional day of remembering and honoring deceased family members with an electronically-enhanced (ofrenda (altar) installation.

Educational Tour Programs

There are over 9,000 K-12 students served through the Snite’s touring programs annually. Educators at the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame will assist you in using the museum as a resource for your classroom. The Snite Museum offers many docent-led tours to correlate with the classroom curriculum and the Indiana State Standards.

Examples of tours available include:

• Looking and Learning: The Elements of Art

• Learning about America Through Art

• World Cultures

• Ancient Cultures

• Stories and Art (includes Bible stories)

• Contemporary Sculpture

• The Dragon and the Goddess: Ancient Mesoamerican Art

• Egyptian Art

• African Art

• Native American Art and Artifacts

• Mythology

• Portraits

• Images of Mary

• Indiana Artists of the Snite

• African American Artists at the Snite

The museum supplies materials for drawing in the galleries with any scheduled tour. Tours should be arranged at least two weeks in advance. Call Curator of Education, Public Programs Coordinator at 574-631-4435 or the tour desk at 574-631-3093 to schedule a tour. There is no fee for a tour. Tours can be docent-led or you may choose to teach your class in the museum.

The museum does not have facilities for meals; however, the University campus offers a variety of venues at nearby La Fortune Hall. There you will find Burger King, Subway, Starbucks and more. There are also locations on campus to eat a bag lunch.

You can also combine a museum tour and campus tour by calling the Visitors’ Center. There is a small fee for a campus tour. For more information you can visit the Notre Dame University’s visitor information website online.

Source: The Snite Museum Online

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© 2007 Connie Limon All Rights Reserved

Abstract landscape art is a form of abstarct art which deals with various landscapes. It mainly involves landscapes like trees, mountains, or different kinds of natural sceneries. This also includes seascapes and weather as two other significant categories that have got developed.

In modern times, the availability of more number of landscape abstract art software helps the developers to make exquisite art forms. Real Landscaping Pro is a software program, which is used to develop various landscape portrayals in a much easier manner. It includes visualizing landscape ideas, professional presentation tools, landscapes with slopes and hills, usage of wizards which make the designing much simpler, digital importing photographs to the art, custom models that can be imported, and huge variety and selection of plants and trees. These factors are used to develop a more attractive landscape art form.

In general, landscape abstract art ranges from a minimum of $800 for an art which has an excellent finishing work. It also exceeds up to $2,000 or even more than that for some of the best pieces with an incredible expressiveness and finishing work. Landscape art has developed with variations in its size, which also influence the price range. The painting has been categorized into three types, such as up to 50 cm, from 50 cm to 100 cm, and exceeding more than 100 cm. According to the size range, the price range also differs from each landscape art design.

Most of the landscape art designs are developed with the use of muslins and oil paintings, which give more attraction and realism to the art. Oil paintings used on canvas can cost you around $20 for a simple selection of the landscape art design. Landscape abstract art is available in many categories. Landscape art that has developed in different stages by different artists are hugely sold for the art lovers. Landscape art developed before 2000, the landscape art created between 2000 and 2005, and very old masterpieces of many famous artists are the common categories one can see before buying.

When you are searching for prints or posters to add to your walls, you will very often find several paintings that are completed by a landscape artist. Originals from the master painters are probably not in your price range, but a print or reproduction is probably more in your budget. This makes the landscapes by such artists as Monet, Constable, and Pissarro very accessible to all kinds of people.

Amateur artists most often choose landscapes for their first works. This may be due to the lack of studio space and the ease in which it is possible to find a subject out in the natural world. Most landscape artists before the time of Impressionism, painted inside their home or studio, working by memory or from drawings. Monet and Renoir took their work outside and were considered weird because they did so.

Landscape painting is done in many countries. Landscapes are particular predominant in Japan, Holland, the United States, France, and Britain. European landscape artists were influenced by two Japanese artists during the 19th century. Hokusai and Hiroshige painted images of mountain ranges, forests, and the ocean using bright colors. From the twentieth century forward, other forms of art began to occupy the time and effort of artists and critics. Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, and Cubism became much more popular. This has made landscape painting somewhat unfashionable.

Most of the general public still loves purchasing and looking at landscapes. They feel very connected to the subject and this is even more evident when it reminds them of an area in their past. A portrait or still life will not evoke the same kind of response in most cases. You will find in looking at landscape paintings that some painters paint the same area. Paul Cezanne was a big example of this, due to the fact that he painted the same mountain range around eight times. The Montagne Sainte Victoire, near his home in France, became one of his favorite subjects. He enjoyed painting it in different seasons and different weather conditions.

Two of the first European landscape artists to paint the ocean were Rembrandt and Vermeer, both Dutch painters. Some artists enjoy painting sky and water as their recurring themes. JMW Turner, and English artists, enjoyed painting seas and stormy skies, but his paintings later turned to a more abstract painting of blurring the sea and the skies together. Monet perfected his water technique by sitting in a rowboat on the water. This helped him to get as close as possible to his subject. Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth are well-known American landscape artists who are well known for their ability to capture light on the water.

Many of us will be tempted to think that landscape painting is an exact replication of the landscape an artist sees right before him. The exact numbers of physical features such as hills, the exact number of living features such as plants or humans, and the exact character of abstract elements such as sunlight or rain. This, however, is never the case. Just like any other painting, which involves the artist’s personal intuitions, a landscape painting is an expression of what the artist wants to see. And contrary to the popular belief that landscape paintings are made outdoors, artists usually prefer to do their work indoors. They usually make rough sketches outdoors, and then fill out the painting more slowly in their studios.

No matter where they choose to paint, there is one issue they all need to deal with while painting landscapes: depth. How does one show depth on a flat canvas? You will find the use of a winding path, a change in the size of things to make them appear closer or further, the use of overlap, a change in the sharpness of images, or the use of diagonal composition.

George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran were three famous American painters who used the above techniques to paint magnificent American landscapes. Catlin made two paintings of the same landscape, and called it River Bluffs. He said that these were the toughest paintings he made, because there was nothing in the landscape to arrest the eye, there were just hills hundreds of feet high, covered in green, for about twenty or thirty miles.

Thomas Moran’s The Chasm of the Colorado is a huge and very famous landscape painting of the Grand Canyon. One look at it, and we might be tempted to think Moran actually saw this site before him. It was, however, the result of a quiet, relentless effort in the artist’s studio, of Moran putting together several small sketches he made while on a trip to the Grand Canyon.

Painters of Landscape

While few of us can afford paintings by the greatest landscape artists like Monet and Constable, reproductions give us an affordable access to their works to enhance our decorating schemes.

Amateur painters often chose landscape as a subject matter as they may not have access to decent studio space and therefore can more easily paint in situ. This was not always the case and the first Impressionist to take their easels outside were viewed as rather unconventional, as artists before them would have painted inside from memory or sketches.

Painting landscape is an art tradition common to many cultures, and it goes hand-in-hand with the popularity of the genre. This was especially the case in Japan, North America, the Netherlands, France and Great Britain until the latter part of the twentieth century as other forms of artistic representation, such as Surrealism and Cubism, for example, grabbed the artists and critics’ attention. Nowadays with the advent of video and installations landscape artists are becoming a rare, rather obsolete breed.

With all this being said, let’s note, however, that most people still rather like landscape paintings. They usually convey a sense of emotional connection to the subject matter, which does not necessarily occur when one looks at a portrait or still life. This is particularly the case when the painting in question reminds of times past.

A number of very famous landscape artists became well known for concentrating on specific areas. In some cases it could almost be tantamount to obsession if you consider that Paul Cézanne, for instance, painted around eighty versions of the Sainte-Victoire mountain located near his home in Provence, France. He wanted to represent it as it looked to him throughout the year, with different weather.

In the seventeen century Holland saw the first European painters representing seascapes, Vermeer and Rembrandt. Since this time there has been a noted recurrence of sky and water themes for some landscape painters, like for instance the well-known English artist JMW Turner. Turner was fist noted for his representations of the sea and skies in violent storm conditions. This said his later works point to the future development of abstract painting by blurring the previously clear line between the water and the sky. French artist Claude Monet’s developed his technique for painting landscapes involving water by doing so in close proximity to his subject matter, which would sometimes involve painting from a small boat. American painters Homer and Wyeth, both renowned landscape painters, were also noted for the admirable way they managed to represent the effect of light on water surfaces.