Day Nine: Bavarian Landscape by Albert Bierstadt
Hello and welcome to day nine of 100 days of tonalism.
Painted after - Bavarian Landscape by Albert Bierstadt , Study by M Francis McCarthy - Size 5x5, Oil on wood panel
Today's study is'Bavarian Landscape by Albert Bierstadt.
Wow, looking at images of the original online I can see that I really took liberties in my study of ol' Abert Bierstadt's painting. I hope he doesn't mind...Albert Bierstadt was not a tonalist, his was the generation that came before, usually referred to as the Hudson River School or. alternatively as Luminists.
Luminists generally were all about capturing the majestic vistas of nature in very large and highly detailed oil paintings. I love this type of art, though I am more drawn to the later tonalist mode. In his day Albert Bierstadt was the preeminent landscape artist. The only one his equal was Frederick Church, and later on Tomas Moran..
Luminists generally were all about capturing the majestic vistas of nature in very large and highly detailed oil paintings. I love this type of art, though I am more drawn to the later tonalist mode. In his day Albert Bierstadt was the preeminent landscape artist. The only one his equal was Frederick Church, and later on Tomas Moran.
Today's video is pretty smooth. I'm getting better at this seat of the pants narration. Many thanks to wikipedia for the quick info. It's an amazing time we live in compared to when I was a kid. Back then we'd have to go to a library, or maybe if our parents were into education there might be a set of encyclopedias in the house.
Cheers,
M Francis McCarthy
A bit about 'Bavarian Landscape' by Albert Bierstadt. Like I said, I took liberties. Colors are clean and more saturated than the photos I see online. Of course you can never really tell what the original painting is like unless you see the actual painting in real life. I rely on intuition, though I'm not too bothered if I deviate from the original.
The point is to make a painting of the image in the way I paint, not to slavishly copy the original. This is why I chose not to paint the cart in the original or the livestock. Frankly I was'n't going to do the barn either but it felt right while I was painting my first color pass. If you check the video you'll see that my under painting has the barn as a clump of trees.
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Original painting, Bavarian Landscape by Albert Bierstadt