Tag: landscape, paesaggio, panorama, paisaje, paisatge, Landschaft, paysage

Terrain Brûlé ~ Terrain Vague

Eugène Cuvelier :: Près de la Caverne, Terrain Brûlé, early 1860s. Salted paper print from paper negative. | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Eugène Cuvelier ~ Près de la Caverne, Terrain Brûlé, early 1860s. Salted paper print from paper negative. | The Metropolitan Museum

“An atypical work for the naturalistically inclined Cuvelier, this highly Romantic image of two people sitting below the skeletons of burned pine trees and looking into the featureless distance like the contemplative figures in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, was no doubt a response to the startling sight of the charred landscape.” [quoted from The Met]

Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) ~ Le Terrain Vague, 1932. Gelatin silver print | src MoMA

“Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy”

― Emil Cioran; A Short History of Decay (1949)


Choiselat and Ratel [
Marie-Charles-Isidore Choiselat and
Stanislas Ratel] ::
Landscape with Cottage, 1844.
Daguerreotype. / src: The Met

Choiselat and Ratel emphasized the two-dimensional organization of the
picture’s surface. The poplars, reflected in the water, seem to stretch
across the plate from top to bottom instead of sitting on the far side
of the pond; the cottage forms, with its reflection, a single geometric solid
floating in space. (Quoted from source)