What do YOU see?

Many of the landscape paintings by the Hudson River School artists picture views of nature showing lots of deep space.  The painters use special techniques to create the illusion that you are looking at an actual wilderness scene even though it is really just paint on a flat surface-almost like a picture window!        

 Look at Durand’s Pastoral Landscape.                                               

·         The mountains are painted in a hazy blue to look faraway

·         The trees look close to us because they are towards the bottom of the picture and they   overlap things that are farther away.

·         The sky fills almost two thirds of the picture to create the sense of big space.

·         There is a diagonal path through the landscape that creates a sense of depth.

When you are finished with Pastoral Landscape, click on the thumbnail above to look at similar things in Durand’s An Old Man’s Reminiscences.

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