DRAWING AND PAINT

Seasons Bring New Abstract Art Ideas for Modern Paintings

All artists, landscape artists or not, depict the changing of the seasons in their works. The way the light enters a room, even rooms with electric lights in them, changes the way a subject appears, and that’s dependent on what season it happens to be when the painting is created. The seasons affect the way artists feel at any given moment in time, which will affect not only their subject, but the way in which they depict it.
Artists have depicted the changing of seasons for centuries. Dutch painter Jan van Goyen, for example, was fascinated by the four seasons. He created two paintings, both in 1625, called “Summer” and “Winter.” He doesn’t depict the same geographic scene as many of his fellow artists did at the time, but both paintings depict the Dutch tendency to enjoy the seasons to their fullness—the warm, gentle light of summer and the harsh, cold blue-grays of winter.
Van Goyen understood that colors themselves are seasonal, and depending upon when they’re used, appear very different as compared to other times of the year. The French Impressionists, like Pissarro, probably explored the seasonal variation of color better than any other artists before or since. Pisarro’s “Woman in an Enclosure,” painted in 1887, is full of pale yellows that dominate the entire painting, even in the blue colors in the sky. Delicate, spring-like textures are everywhere, giving the painting an overall feeling of freshness and brilliant light.
French artist and Rococco enthusiast François Boucher painted all four seasons for his benefactress, King Louis XV’s mistress, Madame de Pompadour. Boucher’s “Spring” and “Autumn” are pastoral scenes, while “Summer” depicts three nude women cooling themselves near a fountain. In “Winter,” a woman is bundled in furs and seated in a sleigh. Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s 1565 painting, “Hunters in the Snow,” contrasts the harshness of the winter scene with the serene beauty of the snow-covered landscape.
The seasons also have symbolic implications, giving artists plenty of subject material. Spring, for example, is associated with birth, flowers, and love. Summer is often associated with bathing, ripeness, maturity, and pleasure. Autumn is the time of harvest, plenty, and sometimes even physical decline. Winter is associated with rest, survival, Christmas (in more modern times), and death.
No other art form lends itself better to the depiction of the seasons better than landscape painting, which exhibits natural sceneries such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests on a canvas or other two-dimensional surface. When the main subject is shown in a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition, the weather and the season is often important. Sometimes the landscape is an integral part of the painting, and in those cases, the season depicted is a crucial part of such paintings.
Just like some artists like to depict the same object at different times of the day, other artists will portray the same view at different times of the year, at different seasons. Light, shadow, and color all change depending upon the season.

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