Current Gallery: landscape ( piece)
A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendor has moved a human heart, and according to as it is well or ill did it moves the hearts of others. Painting is a science and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but experiments?
A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendor has moved a human heart, and according to as it is well or ill did it moves the hearts of others. Painting is a science and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but experiments?