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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The island hidden under the big buildings in the middle of the Lake Maggiore is called Isola Bella (beautiful island). The lake is situated at the south side of the Alps mountain range. It is a real place and many tourists visit the place annually. If we consider the painting as a little window to the real place, we get quickly assured that the reality could not be defined on a canvas more precisely than the artist Gaspar van Vittel. He was known for his accurate topographical views which are called Vedute in art-fields. Vedute paintings mean the accurate illustration of any topographical place. Vittel undoubtedly acquired the mastery in Vedute paintings as we can enjoy the real place’s beauty on our computer screens. Popular […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Modern time filled with high-budget movies with special effects, we often forget that imagination and fantasy was not invented in modern time. It was sprouted in a human mind as soon as a human started ‘rational thinking’. Fantasy is a state where everything is possible and everything is allowed. When an artist mixes his fantasy and reality, he conjures up something which is totally unprecedented. Here, I see such combination of reality and fantasy by the Welsh painter Richard Wilson. Here, as the title says, is a capriccio painting bringing two different places at one. In art, capriccio means a painting which consist the combination of fictional or real architecture and buildings. Thus, they are partly real but don’t exist in real world as a […]
