Artistic mountains
Top Summits of the World contributor and mountaineering enthusiast
The immensity, magic, beauty and respect that mountains and nature around the world can make you feel can be difficult to capture in an image, photograph or drawing, since the sensation is experienced with the different senses and emotions, in the first person and letting yourself be embraced by each experience. Despite this complexity, multiple artists have painted works where the majesty, elegance and personality of peaks, mountains or mountain ranges can be conveyed. In this short collection of 10 paintings you can travel through different artistic periods and places on the world map, to approach the mountain world in a creative way. We start this short journey, which consists of three stops.
1. First stop. Dialogues between mountains and living beings
These three works of art talk about the approach between animals, people and mountains, from coexistence, habitat and expeditions, by the hand of three artists. Rosa Bonheur, a French painter, with a realistic style and approaching rural life or transhumance, depicted mountainous regions, for example, in the Pyrenees or Scotland. Albert Bierstadt gave a particularly charming air in the background to the Rocky Mountains, between Canada and the United States, leaving a camp and nature itself on the front line. And Katsushika Hokusai, with a delicate stroke of ink, represented the fascinating Mount Fuji behind a village where the day begins.
2. Second stop. Light, colors and sinuosities
In these four paintings we can enjoy great diversity in the use of lines, color or luminosity itself. Four great artists reflect the mountain from different perspectives. Vincent Van Gogh, from post-impressionism, gives shape to the limestone rocks of the Alpilles massif, while Helen Frankenthaler, with expressionist touches, provides the most abstract version of this collection of mountains, with great softness and own style. Another very particular style is found in Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting, where the Big Mountain plateau or Black Mesa it is very strong represented, where the highest peak in the state of Oklahoma is located. Finally, Paul Cézanne painted a large number of paintings focused on the mountain theme, especially captivated by the beauty of Mount Santa Victoria.
3. Third stop. Route through Asia, America and Europe
These three works of art take us to unique landscapes, thanks to three great authors. The English artist Marianne North, who travelled to remote places to discover and paint nature, making her work a fascinating collection, and with repercussions also on a scientific level, for example, in the field of botany. The painter Frederic Edwin Church, from the United States, influenced by the Romanticism movement, with special sensitivity to the environment and the mountains. And the German artist Caspar David Friedrich, who highlighted the value of the Central European mountain range of the Giants Mountains, between Poland and the Czech Republic, where Sněžka, the highest peak of this second country is located.
All these artistic mountains can awaken a special gaze, where hobbies, emotions and lifestyles converge.
See you on the next trip!
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