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Di Chirico was a Surrealist and painted views of abandoned towns, filled with ominous, creepy shadows and bizarrely placed objects. |
Patterson is a young Glasgow-based artist who takes details of buildings and paints them using correct persepctive, but floats them in space away from the real world. |
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Caillebotte produced street scenes capturing the new French fashion of promenading in the 19th century - walking the streets of Paris and meeting people. |
Monet persuaded the station master at the Gare St Lazare in Paris to delay the trains and pump up the steam from their engines in order to capture the swirl, noise and pent up energy of the station. |
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Georgia O'Keefe painted close-up paintings of flowers and skulls, but she also looked at buildings in New York, simplifying them into almost abstract paintings, concentrating on the pattern made by the lights in the windows. |
Whistler painted night scenes of water in cities called Nocturnes, trying to create effects of light and colour that would remind people of music. He also made careful studies of Venice and the buildings upon its canals. |
be urban!
Buildings, towns and cities are very important to human beings, as places where we liv, studye and work. Many artists have painted the city or the street. Sometimes they concentrate on the hustle and bustle of a busy street and try to capture the noises and movement. Other artists look at the alienating aspects of the city - individuals being lost amongst a huge sprawl of anonymous buildings. Some artists concentrate only on the structures themselves, using perspective to show accurately rendered and foreshortened buildings - more interested in depicting shape and form than people.
