some LANDSCAPES

Not far from where we live in London there is a domestic house that hosts art exhibitions, the postROOM gallery.

As we were in Oxford on Sunday we checked out the new Mike Nelson exhibition at Modern Art Oxford.

Can a landscape be still and noisy at the same time?

Ana Mendieta, Untitled, Siluetas Series, 1976 I have written about Ana Mendieta on this blog twice before.

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Lake Wolfgang, 1835 Room 1 in the National Gallery currently has a free exhibition of landscape paintings by the Austrian artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793–1865).

Years ago I read this attractive Pushkin Press paperback which, unusually for a 19th century novel, comes with no introduction or footnotes.

I recently added a Map of Blog Posts to this site, replacing the earlier ones which were were restricted in what they could show.

periplum, not as land looks on a map but as sea bord seen by men sailing.

Phoenix rising by the sun in the Aberdeen Bestiary Source: University of Notre Dame It has been intensely hot again this week and I was listening on the news this morning to reports of fires in the Midlands.

In the late 1930s comparisons were often made between new art and ancient landscapes.

Utagawa Hiroshige, Musashi Plain, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, 1852 I have been reading A Tale Unasked, Penguin's new Meredith McKinney translation of Lady Nijō's Towazugatari, a court and travel diary completed around 1307.

Utagawa Hiroshige, Views of Ōmi #3: Autumn Moon At Ishiyama Temple, 1834 Twenty years ago I wrote here about the tradition of 'Eight Views' in Chinese and Japanese art, stemming from the original Eight Views of the Hsiao and Hsiang Rivers.

Hurvin Anderson, Lower Lake, 2005 I've been twice now to the Tate's Hurvin Anderson exhibition - a refreshingly cool, air-conditioned experience on these recent hot days, even though many of his landscape paintings depict tropical vegetation and sunlit Ca…

Mrs Fox with her Stormy Landscapes Here is a landscape painter I have never featured before, Mrs Fox.

I just finished Richard Langston's superb new oral history of The Clean, In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul (I had a tear in my eye at the end).

The Epic of Everest (1924) is an extraordinary landscape film - mainly shot in black and white but sometimes tinted in vivid colours, including pink, as you can see above.

Michael Snow, still from La Région Centrale, 1971 I thought I would focus here on a fascinating work of landscape art that I have only briefly referred to previously.

All at once I was standing, almost without being aware of it, on that other earth in the bright sunlight of a paradisal day.

Round Soria the land is dry and cold.

Joachim Patinir's workshop, Saint Jerome in a Rocky Landscape, c. 1515 The National Gallery's early landscape-related art is now in a Sainsbury Wing room called 'Looking at Nature: European Painting 1430-1540.'

Conrad Martens, HMS Beagle being hailed by native Fuegians, 1832 Following a visit to Charles Darwin's home Down House earlier this year, I read the The Voyage of the Beagle (1845 - the second edition which incorporated extensive revisions and looked forw…

This is 'Barbara Codonia', a depiction of the 'landscape' of northern Germany drawn by Dürer or his school, incorporating the names of places and longitude and latitude around the borders.

Marc Chagall, sketch of a curtain for The Firebird Act 1, 'The Enchanted Forest', 1945 We were in Nice last week and visited the Chagall Museum.

Mountains in the Classical Tradition was a research project based at St.

Detail from The Channel of Gravelines: An Evening The Courtauld exhibition Seurat and the Sea is well worth getting to - not cheap, but of course it gets you access to the splendours of the permanent collection and there are many pictures you would normal…

In April 2018 I wrote a blog post here about blossom viewing: 'last weekend at Kew Gardens the cherry trees were in full bloom.

Sean Scully, Aran, 2005 Sean Scully was the subject of a profile in the Guardian earlier this year with a clickbaity headline: ''I’m the product of a smashed-up family': how Sean Scully became the greatest abstract painter alive.'

Today I paid a second visit to the Tate's Turner & Constable exhibition.

A place with a pond, in the fifth month when the rains are falling, is a very moving thing.