20.01.14: Writing Landscape Painting

‘To See A Landscape as It is’
Thicket No. 1 1989-90 by Roni Horn born 1955
Roni Horn (born 1955)
Thicket No. 1
Date 1989-90

 

In this workshop we will be writing in response to a number of paintings and a variety of poems that present differing relationships to landscape.

 

Moonrise on the Yare (?) circa 1811-16 by John Crome 1768-1821

John Crome
Moonrise on the Yare (?) circa 1811-16
Oil on canvas

 

 

Spanish Landscape with Mountains circa 1924 by Dora Carrington 1893-1932

Dora Carrington (1893‑1932)
Spanish Landscape with Mountains
Date c.1924
Landscape at Iden 1929 by Paul Nash 1889-1946

Paul Nash
Landscape at Iden 1929
Oil on canvas

 

Three Symbols 1930 by Eileen Agar 1899-1991

Eileen Agar (1899‑1991)
Three Symbols
1930
Hotel by the Sea 1946 by John Craxton 1922-2009
John Craxton (1922‑2009)
Hotel by the Sea
1946
Echo Lake 1998 by Peter Doig born 1959
Peter Doig (born 1959)
Echo Lake
Date 1998
Oil paint on canvas

Poets and Artists in Landscapes

 

Sir Brooke Boothby 1781 by Joseph Wright of Derby 1734-1797

Sir Brooke Boothby
1781
Oil paint on canvas
Homer and the Ancient Poets 1824-7 by William Blake 1757-1827
William Blake (1757‑1827)
Homer and the Ancient Poets
Date 1824-7
The Poet Reclining 1915 by Marc Chagall 1887-1985

Marc Chagall (1887‑1985)

The Poet Reclining, 1915

 

 

The Poet 1941 by Cecil Collins 1908-1989
Cecil Collins (1908‑1989)
The Poet
1941
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John Craxton ‘Pastoral to P.W.’

 

Dreamer in Landscape 1942 by John Craxton 1922-2009

John Craxton (1922‑2009)
Dreamer in Landscape
1942

Poetry and Landscape

 

We will now look at poems by a number of contemporary practitioners and discuss how each of them has used different formal and metaphorical approaches to the presentation of landscape.

Resources:

 

 Ecopoetics Feature How2

Landscapes at the Tate

Ambient Landscape