Picturesque
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Picturesque
(painting) As used in common language, picturesque means 'forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture.' Historically, Picturesque was a style of landscape painting that emphasized a sentimental aesthetic over the sublime.
Picturesque, but with a twist... Vermeer's allegory is certainly not as flamboyant as Ruben's, but it was understood just as well by our Protestant Dutch.
picturesque - In general, this may refer to any scene which seems to be especially suitable for representation in a picture, especially that which is sublime.
Both the picturesque embellishments added to this great portrait of the eccentric English countess, with her jester, her dwarf and her dog, and the theatrical baldachin and the view over open country, are typical of Titian's style.
To create his picturesque canvases, Hobbema rearranged certain favorite elements such as old water mills, thatch-roofed cottages, and embanked dikes. Hobbema’s hallmark is rolling clouds that give promise of a refreshing rain.
folly - an often extravagant picturesque building erected to suit a fanciful taste; architectural anomaly
flourish - to wield a paintbrush or implement with bold, sweeping, dramatic gestures ...
An element of the picturesque contributed to the birth of the Gothic Revival, in that art no longer adopted the classical principles of beauty but was rather aiming to produce thoughts and feelings through powers of suggestion.
Picturesque
quaint, charming. From the 18th century onwards "The Picturesque" acquired a more specific meaning, particularly in connection with landscape painting, and architecture; it suggested a deliberate roughness or rusticity of design, ...
Smith, assisting the latter with his etchings of picturesque cottages and with his research on Gainsborough.
The half-timber throughout England is of the most picturesque description, and the earliest examples date from towards the close of the 15th century.
Picturesque scenes were thus neither serene (like the beautiful) nor awe-inspiring (like the Sublime), but full of variety, curious details, and interesting textures - medieval ruins were quintessentially Picturesque.
The most popular Victorian paintings were of the countryside - picturesque cottages, pretty milkmaids, perfect cattle... Roland Collection : Victorian Painting - Modern Life ...
It was perhaps the obverse side of his fondness for finery, that Rembrandt had a strong leaning towards the picturesqueness of rags. A very interesting class of his etchings is devoted to genre studies and beggars.
strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension, horror and terror, and awe-especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque ...
Also see bad art, bland, calendar painting, kitsch, low art, paint-by-number, pastoral, picturesque, popular culture, rustic, sacral-idyllic scene, seascape, and still life.
Similarly, landscape gardening was used to express the romantic aesthetic for the way it imitated the picturesque qualities of nature.
It was the romantic spirit characterized by an experimental point of view and extolled spontaneity of expression, intuitive imagination, and the picturesque rather than a carefully organized, rational approach.
manner, and also, in both cases, an illusion of extraordinaryverve, much emotion, a considerable assortment of images of a qualitysuch as we should never have been able to obtain in the normal way ofwriting, a very special sense of the picturesque, ...
 See also: Painting, Roman, School, Composition, Movement
  
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