Contemporary Urban Landscapes

An urban landscape revolves around the energy of the city, its individual houses, squares and vehicle-lined streets… The contemporary urban landscape artist uses color and light to highlight an ever-changing setting. The origins of this movement arguably lie in the Middle Ages with architecture used as a backdrop in paintings but by the 17th century, it became popular among Dutch painters. The likes of Hayden, Goyen, Reisdahl and of course Vermeer, depicted everyday life framed by the urban landscape. It is through such artists that the viewer can be aided in imagining a cityscape prior to electricity and mass-industrialization.

Today artists such as Raluca Vulcan and Jerome Bauduin now capture a cityscape belonging not just to them but to everyone in it. Bauduin is a true poet of urban nights, showing bright neon-lit halos and liquid colors as he attempts to capture our feeling about the city. Simultaneously, Vulcan has also been dealing with contemporary urban landscapes, scenes of life, in a colorful, luminous and intense vision. In what can be perceived as a complex subject matter, the artists of urban landscape are archivists for a record of human interaction with its environment and they construct and inhabit the color and light filled spaces within it…

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Contemporary Urban Landscapes

Brume citadine

Shaded Square, Brittany

New York Midtown

Silver Building

Amsterdam - Ouwezijdskolk

Mégalopole rainbow

Ville de Homms Syrie

Rétroviseur

Remember Guangzhou

Oscar et Pita

Honfleur Quai Sainte Catherine

Miroiter La Défense

Wall street NY

Canyon City Bridge

Paysage urbain organique

Honfleur le Vieux Port

Ville vue du Ciel

Cimetière de tramways à Sofia à l’époque Communiste

Chantier Navale Désaffecté

Trotteurs sur la plage

Pudong Subway Station in Shanghai

Plantas con fondo atmosférico

Fondo marino

Aurora boreal

Paso de Cebra

Bidonville favélas

Porte container

Canyoning urbanization

Favélas

Une marina

Falaise de verre

Car Races, 292. F, Ceber 1970. March Tyrrell 701

Car Races, Graham Hill. Montjuic 1969. Lotus 49B

Classic Car. Mustang Bullit

El luminoso verde

Rotterdam Harbor before the bombing of may 4 of 1940

Arromanches 1944

Sabotage de la Résistance - Débarquement 1944

La Guerre sur l’Atlantique 1942-1944

Geometric perspective

Brise-vagues en Belgique

Doubledeck tramway of Hong Kong

La régate

The Bund Shanghai by rain

Joconda Olympica

Spring Whistle

Mémoires des Favélas

Larong Gar - Chine, Ville Bouddhiste Rouge

Brume rousse

Park avenue

Erasmus bridge

52ème rue

Bord de Seine animé, Paris

Favélas

Passerelle métallique

Personnages sous le porche de l'église

Square devant l'église, Paris

Tas de sable jaune, Paris

Petite chapelle

Hollis

Limbo

Faded

Message

Messenger

Enclosed

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