Poetic Landscapes

A long tradition in European painting, poetic landscapes as a genre can be perceived as complex. Often credited with elevating the status of watercolor paintings, the poetic landscape presents the viewer with an imaginary setting. In one sense, the artist is given free rein to depict mythical fantasy upon the geography of the landscape— slotting Roman architecture ruins amongst mountain landscapes where there weren't any, for instance. By idealizing and tweaking the subject, artists like Richard Wilson redesigned buildings and exaggerated geographic features to counter the more banal topographical records of the landscape.

As noted by author W.G. Leszl, this genre is based on the idea from the aesthetic theory in the Poetics of Aristotle in that the actual is imperfect whilst the idealized (because it embodies harmonious proportions and can be used to express elevated moral ideas) is the proper subject of art. Today, as the relationship between the landscape and those that inhabit it becomes more and more strained, artists such as Salvatore Mangione (Salvo) and Nick Vivian depict the landscape in its most simplistic form – to remind us of the source for our existence.

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(6174) Femmes africaines

Le Haut Saint-Jean

Racines suspendues

Paris - le soir

Pont Marie

Falaise - Côte normande

Varangeville - Côte normande

Woman at a Paris Cafe III

Lady in the City Night

Gentleman at a Paris Cafe

Coup de vent à la campagne

Le jardin

Montmartre sous la pluie

La guinguette N°2

Sous bois en automne

Balade en vélo

Les pois de senteurs

I Don’t Mean A Thing

La Wanegaine

Walensee. Impression of Heidiland.

My Galaxy

Spring Impression near Mount Fuji

Inspired by Monet Flowers in a vase

Seaside Play

Diptych Bless you!

Gentle roses

Beautiful sea

Landscape with meadow

Riga city. Spring.

Pomegranate

Sea element

Coast

Lovely garden daisies

Roses

Field grass cover

A corner of the Garden

Blooming tree

Road to the sea

Early spring

Sakura in the city park

Blooming arch by the sea

Evening colors by the river

Beautiful coast

Saturday evening in November

River fountain in a city park

Landscape with poppy field

Beautiful garden

Snow peaks

Blue Mountains

Mountain peak

Mountain river

Sunflower

Expression with sunflowers

Under the sun

Pond in spring

Blooming pond

Three Irises by the pond

Spring pond

It may be healthy

Pond

Into the forest to cut down Christmas tree

Snow alley

Christmas evening in the forest

Icy river in the Christmas forest

Christmas Tree at the City Hall Square

Christmas Market at Dome square

Lotus or Movement to the Light