Accompanying the National Gallery of Art exhibition True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe 1780-1870, this catalog presents essays by leading experts in the field and new information about this key aspect of European art history.
Accompanying the National Gallery of Art exhibition True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe 1780-1870, this catalog presents essays by leading experts in the field and new information about this key aspect of European art history. At the end of the 18th century, the tradition of plein air painting gained considerable popularity in Rome. Having come from all over Europe to study classical sculpture, architecture, and masterpieces of the Renaissance and the baroque, groups of young artists set their eyes on the Italian countryside, training their hands to transcribe the effects of light. The practice soon spread throughout Europe and eventually became an essential aspect of art education and basic skill of landscape painting.
This lavish volume contains 140 color reproductions of sketches made en plein air between 1780 and 1870, demonstrating the skill and ingenuity with which each artist captures, with speed and on the spot, the effects of light and atmosphere. The works in True to Nature, most of them unfamiliar to the general public, convey the immediacy of nature in art and cast a fresh eye on the previously overlooked tradition of plein air painting.
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| Description | Accompanying the National Gallery of Art exhibition True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe 1780-1870, this catalog presents essays by leading experts in the field and new information about this key aspect of European art history. At the end of the 18th century, the tradition of plein air painting gained considerable popularity in Rome. Having come from all over Europe to study classical sculpture, architecture, and masterpieces of the Renaissance and the baroque, groups of young artists set their eyes on the Italian countryside, training their hands to transcribe the effects of light. The practice soon spread throughout Europe and eventually became an essential aspect of art education and basic skill of landscape painting. This lavish volume contains 140 color reproductions of sketches made en plein air between 1780 and 1870, demonstrating the skill and ingenuity with which each artist captures, with speed and on the spot, the effects of light and atmosphere. The works in True to Nature, most of them unfamiliar to the general public, convey the immediacy of nature in art and cast a fresh eye on the previously overlooked tradition of plein air painting.
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