![COW'S SKULL](http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/media/w540h540/collection/wynter_bryan_p742_cows_skull.jpg)
© The estate of Bryan Wynter
COW'S SKULL 1948
Bryan Wynter (1915 – 1975)
Details
- Dimension
- 35.5 X 50.5 CM
- Media
- MONOTYPE
- Accession number
- P742
Summary
Wynter moved to Cornwall in1945 and the paintings from this period are of the dramatic local landscape in a neo-romantic style. He began experimenting with monotype soon after the move and would on occasion use the technique as a starting point for his paintings. This monotype was included in the first exhibition of the Society of London Painter-Printers shown at the Redfern Galley in1948, and was one of a number of prints he produced during the period. By the mid 1950s he had radically altered his style and began to paint totally abstract works on a much large scale.
Glossary
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Landscape
Landscape is one of the principle genres of Western art. In early paintings the landscape was a backdrop for the composition, but in the late 17th Century the appreciation of nature for its own sake began with the French and Dutch painters (from whom the term derived). Their treatment of the landscape differed: the French tried to evoke the classical landscape of ancient Greece and Rome in a highly stylised and artificial manner; the Dutch tried to paint the surrounding fields, woods and plains in a more realistic way. As a genre, landscape grew increasing popular, and by the 19th Century had moved away from a classical rendition to a more realistic view of the natural world. Two of the greatest British landscape artists of that time were John Constable and JMW Turner, whose works can be seen in the Tate collection (www.tate.org.uk). There can be no doubt that the evolution of landscape painting played a decisive role in the development of Modernism, culminating in the work of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists . Since then its demise has often been predicted and with the rise of abstraction, landscape painting was thought to have degenerated into an amateur pursuit. However, landscape persisted in some form into high abstraction, and has been a recurrent a theme in most of the significant tendencies of the 20th Century. Now manifest in many media, landscape no longer addresses solely the depiction of topography, but encompasses issues of social, environmental and political concern.
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Monotype
The artist may draw or paint onto a surface such as glass or metal and then press paper onto the image to take its impression. Because the ink or other medium is transferred to the paper only one good impression can be made.