I don't spend a lot of time studying other artists or collecting their work, but being an artist invites people and social media sites to tell me about other artists. On Instagram, I happened to see one of his landscapes with his name tagged, checked him out, and started following his hashtag. He was known for engravings among other things, but I'm inspired most by his landscapes, which he did later in life. These four paintings were free to use on the internet, but if you're curious, please look up his other landscapes, because these are not my favorites of his. His engravings were black and white with stark shapes, and his landscapes have a similar aesthetic. My favorites have simple shapes that lean abstract but maintain enough reality to be interesting. His colors are fresh and flat, but again, realistic enough to be engaging. The paintings speak a mood. He says about his landscapes:
"I would like to be able to re-create landscapes only with the help of the emotion they have provoked in me. A few large evocative lines, one or two details, chosen with no thought for the exact time or light". "I dream of a painting entirely disengaged from any literal concern about nature. I want to construct landscapes entirely based on the emotions that they have created in me, a few evocative lines, one or two details, chosen, without a superstition of the exactitude of the hour or the lighting". (quotes taken from www.theartstory.org) This is similar to what I want to do with my landscape paintings.
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