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Landscape Paintings report

For this report, we are to choose two paintings with a different style and respond to them and compare. I have chosen work by John Constable and Casper David Friedrich. I am very familiar with John Constable's work as I have admired it for years. He is an inspiration to me in regards to painting landscapes and I strive to be as detailed as him one day. I feel like I need to learn more about the media and understand what media is best for what I want to do.
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818)
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818) – Caspar David Friedrich
Oil on Canvas

 Casper David Friedrich is another artist who I think about a lot. He is a fantastic landscape painter from the 19th century  who was part of the German Romantic movement and is considered as one of the most important painters of that time. I chose to talk about this painting mainly because of the feeling I get when I look at it. It gives me a great sense of freedom and peace which I love. It makes me wish that I was the one standing on top of the mountain looking out at the sea of fog. I love the idea of escaping to a quiet solitude like this where I can be alone with my thoughts.
View on the Stour Near Dedham
by John Constable
Oil on Canvas
He put a lot of work into this, starting it in the autumn and painting it over the winter and finishing it in the spring, its based upon a sketch that was altered a number of times. I personally like working this way and I plan on working more like this in the future during the painting unit in college. I was drawn to this painting because of the romantic nature of it. Constable honors nature in his paintings and celebrates it. This is the approach that I like to take whenever I do landscape paintings. I have so much to learn in order to achieve the same kind of feel as this painting.


I believe that both of these artist celebrate nature in a different way. Friedrich tries to harness a certain atmosphere within his paintings. Constable goes in a similar way with his but he doesn't focus so much on the atmosphere but more of a documentation of the landscape around him, almost like his journey through the England landscape. Some people dont connect with John Constable's work but I do. I find it mesmerizing an so skillfully done, It inspires me to pursue landscape art which I think is a fantastic effect to have on the viewer.


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