Dimensions: support: 470 x 768 mm
Copyright: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: Here we have Clarkson Stanfield’s "Lake Como," housed at the Tate. It’s quite a tranquil scene. What visual elements stand out to you? Curator: Observe how Stanfield constructs the composition: the strategic placement of the lighthouse as a vertical counterpoint to the horizontal expanse of the lake. The atmospheric perspective also serves to flatten and unify the zones. Editor: That's an interesting point about the perspective creating unity. Curator: The brushwork itself, how would you characterize it? The clouds differ in their facture from the mountains, don't you agree? Editor: I see the loose brushstrokes in the clouds contrasting with the smoother rendering of the mountains. I hadn’t noticed that before!
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tate about 2 months ago
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tate about 2 months ago
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In the early nineteenth century many artists like Stanfield and Callcott turned to the lakes of northern Italy for the subject-matter of topographical pictures that were often engraved in volumes of 'Picturesque Tours' for consumption by a largely middle-class market. Their new, bourgeois realism is wedded to the older, idealising vision of Italy to produce works that are both serene and immediate - a tourist's view of landscape seen through layers of pictorial and cultural tradition. Gallery label, August 2004
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