#horizontal landscape

[malioli]

Frozen Mid-Air

The garden becomes a theater of precise navigation right after a heavy rain shower. In this horizontal study of the Passiflora caerulea, the wet, complex crown acts as a landing pad. One bee is already submerged in the flower's core, while a second is caught perfectly frozen in low flight, hovering in the bright light slicing through the leaves. Shot through manual vintage glass, the compressed frame turns a split-second encounter into a timeless geometric balance.

[galleryofart]

Flower Beds in Holland

Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

Date: c. 1883

Medium: Oil on canvas on wood

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

Description

The painting shows rectangular plots of flowers, each in a single color, stretch toward us below a sky nearly filled with cream-white clouds in this horizontal landscape painting. Together, the monochromatic plots create the impression of a patchwork quilt, with large areas of pale pink, butter yellow, bright white, and baby blue. A person walks across the plots to our right. The horizon line comes almost halfway up the painting and is lined with dark brown houses with tall, pitched roofs. Two barren trees twist into the cloudy sky. The loose, short, parallel brushstrokes and touches of paint create a soft, hazy effect.

[onceuponawildflower]

Dinorwic Quarry Slate Mine (Wales) 10/01/16 | by Matthew Dartford

[uwhe-arts]

dry land ... | uwhe-arts

[noideaid]

Mt. Hood - Oregon

[noideaid]