Jan-Maat’s Reviews > Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places > Status Update
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"Speed diminishes the gifts that a journey can give you, he gift, for instance of moving through a landscape slowly enough to be able to watch it, take in its characteristics, observe the the land's relationship to the sky, the patterning made by boundaries, whether of hedge or stone, the way that trees, banks in the lane signal changes in the underpinning of the landscape..."
— Mar 02, 2019 03:45AM
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"When I look over the [Dorset] coast, or the mountains round the place where I was born in Wales, I'm not thinking geology, geomorphology, Triassic, Jurassic or Cretaceous. my response is immediate, visceral. The land rearing up,plunging down, the mist lying heavy in the valleys, the alternating blocks of plough & pasture, smudges of copse, sandstone cliffs swooping into waves..."
— Mar 04, 2019 12:33AM
Jan-Maat
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since painters or gentlemen on the Grand Tour could no longer get to Italy due to war with France - they were obliged to turn to Britain for substitutes: "the craggy landscape of Cumberland & Westmoreland stood in for the Alps & Constable's calm landscapes of the Stour valley replaced Claude's views of the Roman campagna"
— Mar 02, 2019 03:40AM
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"when it first appeared, 'landscape' was considered a foreign word, often written the Dutch way - landschap - & used to describe the pictures that artists in england began to make in the 18th century"
— Mar 01, 2019 02:07PM
