There are a lot of reasons why people paint landscapes. Just as there are plenty of reasons why the consumer likes them. Easy to read. Not likely to offend anyone, and pretty hard to get a political statement out of a painting of a tree. In fact, for the unofficial un-offending aspect there are landscapes just a step or two above that old standby beige paint. Not that I have anything against beige paint.
So if you are a landscape painter, why do you care? Why do you choose to paint mountains instead of figures, or still life or even abstract, which many artists claim has it's roots in the landscape but is so far removed it's hard to really tell?
For that matter, why do you care what you paint, no matter what you choose to paint?
Because it isn't so much a question of what you care about, but whether or not you know why you care about it. Not that caring will improve your work. But not caring will most likely show up as beige paint.
That Summer When We Walked the Field, oil, 12 x 36 © 2012
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And not many artists want to be just beige. (I like to be a little beige to make the others stand out.)
To me, caring = something to say about it.
Posted by: Tracy Wall | February 08, 2012 at 03:57 AM