Naturalism in Art, Beginnings to the Present


Home page The Good Tern Foundation websites: The Good Tern Foundation Contemporary Nature Art Nature Art Information About Us Board Members Advisors to the Board Contact Donate Partners Members Naturalism in Art Chronological High Points of Naturalism in Art Caring for Nature: What Science and Economics Can't Teach Us but Religion Can Projects: The Border Fence Other sites of interest Volunteer	Naturalism in Art, Beginnings to the Present Where a naturalistic work is concerned, we should never ignore the experience of nature in the life of the artist, which the picture revives. The important thing, perhaps, is not so much the more or less exact reproduction of nature, but the artist's capacity for making us share his experience with him. Fritz Novotny Prehistoric 35,000 B.C.E The Cave at Lascaux, France Egyptian ca. 1981-1885 B.C.E. Statuette of a Hippopotamus, Dynasty 12; Middle Kingdom Egyptian ca 1,000 B.C. E Section from the "Book of the Dead" of Nany, Dynasty 21, reigns of Psensennes I-II; Third Intermediate period Egyptian; Western Thebes Painted and inscribed papyrus. Corinthian ca. 570-560 B.C.E Vase, Archaic Period Greek ca. 510 BC Hephaistos on ithyphallic donkey, ithyphallic satyr either side/ Peleus and Thetis, Nereid left Roman 1st-2nd Century AD Ronan marble torso of Aphrodite, Based on a Hellenistic prototype. Byzantine late 10th century Icon with the Koimesis ("Falling Asleep") of the Virgin Mary Jan van Eyck Adoration of the Lamb (detail), 1432 Jan van Eyck Man in a Red Turban, 1432 Albrecht Dürer Young Hare, 1502 Albrecht Dürer Little Owl, 1508 Hans Holbein Georg Gisze, a German merchant in London, 1532 Brueghel Hunters in the Snow, 1565 Brueghel Two Small Monkeys, 1562 Caravaggio The Conversion on the Way to Damascus, 1600 Velázquez Old Woman Frying Eggs, 1618 Velázquez The Waterseller of Seville, 1623 Frans Hals The Laughing Cavalier, 1624 Vermeer Milkmaid, 1658 Vermeer The little street, 1659 Vermeer Girl with a pearl earring, 1660 Jacques-Louis David The Death of Marat, 1793 Caspar David Friedrich Chalk Cliffs on Rugen, 1818 Géricault The Raft of the Medusa, 1819 Christen Købke Gateway in the Via Sepulcralis in Pompeii, 1846 Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller The expected, 1860 Anselm Feuerbach Old Woman Sitting, 1853 Camille Corot Ville-d'Avray, 1865 Camille Corot The Forest at Coubron, 1872 Edgar Degas Horses in a Meadow, 1871 Edgar Degas The Road (La route), c. 1878/1880 Wilhelm Leibl Peasant Girl with a White Headcloth, 1885 Julien Allen Weir The High Pasture, ca. 2002 Georgia O'Keeffe My Shanty, Lake George, 1922 Henry Varmum Poor Dead Crow, 1943 Andrew Wyeth Christina's World, 1948 Ruth Leaf River Scene Top of page
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