some LANDSCAPES

The National Gallery's ‘Corot to Monet’ exhibition charts 'the development of open-air landscape painting up to the first Impressio...

Tate Modern's decision to devote a big exhibition to Per Kirkeby has been questioned but I was pleased to see a good spread of his yest...

The British Museum are currently showing Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur , an exhibition previously at the Smithsonian.  T...

Edward Lear, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Sunrise, 1859 Source: Victorian Web I have mentioned Edward Lear briefly before - speci...

J. M. W. Turner, Staffa, Fingal's Cave , 1832  Last night I watched the recent Charles Hazlewood documentary for the BBC on Felix ...

Undoubtedly one of the best books I've ever read on landscape is Marjorie Hope Nicolson's Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory (1959). ...

This is the last of my short series of posts about contemporary landscape drawing, based on Phaidon's Vitamin D survey.  Serse, in addi...

In The Mill on the Floss (1860), George Eliot describes the landscape of childhood.  'Life did change for Tom and Maggie; and yet they ...

We know that naturalism is a style like any other - Gombrich's Art and Illusion goes to some lengths demonstrating this in the case of ...

I heard designer Celia Birtwell on the radio the other day saying how her friend David Hockney often sends her drawings made on his iPhone. ...

Edward Thomas wrote all his poetry over a period of twenty-seven months, from November 1914 to January 1917.  Read in sequence they trace th...

The first chapter of Peter Humfrey's 2007 monograph on Titian is called 'From the Mountains to the Lagoon'.  Titian was born in ...

Another short post on a contemporary artist drawing imaginary landscapes: Frank Magnotta .  According to Dominic Molon in Vitamin D , Magnot...

I spent a happy evening with a friend yesterday eating Il Bacio pizzas and watching the BFI's DVD compilation of William Raban films...

This is one of a few posts I'm going to do on contemporary drawn landscapes, based on Phaidon's excellent survey Vitamin D: New Pers...

Geoff Manaugh was in London today to launch the BLDGBLOG book , so I popped over to the Architectural Association this evening to hear him ...

'In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco -the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witnes...

The catalogue to the Richard Long exhibition Heaven and Earth, which I discussed here recently, draws attention to Long's early career ...

Back in 1965 the ICA organised an exhibition called 'Between Poetry and Painting' which included work by Ian Hamilton Finlay. Fort...

In a previous post here I quoted an extract from Gilbert White's A Natural History of Selborne , which included a proposal: "Shoul...