Category: landscape

Abdul Mati Klarwein

Abdul Mati Klarwein, “Camouflage”, 1985-1987, Oil on Canvas

In 1948, Mati Klarwein moved to Paris where he enrolled at the Acadèmie Julian. He later studied with painter Fernand Leger, who introduced him to the art of Salvador Dalí, Buñuel, and the world of surrealism. Later in his life, he befriended Dalí, writing about his bizarre encounters with Salvador’s sexual behaviours in his book “Collected Works 1959-1975″. In Paris, Klarwein also met Viennese fantastic-realist painter Ernst Fuchs.

With Paris as his base, Mati Klarwein spent long periods of time traveling and painting portraits during summers in Saint Tropez. Together with his father, who had recently won the competition to build Israel’s Parliament, he started to build a house in the small village of Deia, Majorca, having fallen in love with the place.

Still best known for his art of the 1960s and 1970s, (featured in a vast collection of important album covers). Mati also worked more conventionally across a variety of genres including still life, landscape, and commissioned portraits. This landscape painting of the Mallorca area of Spain by Mati Klarwein, painted between 1985-1987, demonstrates the extraordinary level of detail that is a hallmark of his work.

Pripyat, Ukraine

Infra-Red Photography of Pripyat, Ukraine

Vladimir took thise photographs of Pripyat, a ghost city in the Ukraine. UNESCO included it in its list as a world heritage cities. The city was founded in February of 1970 and grew to a population fo 49,360 by the time of its evacuation on the afternoon of April 27, 1986, the day after the Chernobyl Disaster. It is considered relatively safe to visit, and several companies offer guided tours around the area.

Alexander Van Driessche

Alexander Van Driessche, “The Naica Mine”, Mexico

In 2000, stunned geologists discovered some of the largest crystals ever found in the then-working Naica Silver Mine in Chihuahua, Mexico. Nearly 1,000 feet underground, selenite crystals as large as 4 feet in diameter and 50 feet long grow in an atmosphere of 136 degrees Fahrenheit and 90-99 percent humidity. Only a handful of people has ever entered one of the five crystal growing caves. In 2015, the mine ceased operation and was closed to the public after a worker suffocated in the inhospitable environment while trying to steal some of the selenite.

Bill Bryson: “The Woods is One Boundless Singularity”

Photographer Unknown, The Trailer in the Pines

“There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods. It’s where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow. The woods is one boundless singularity. Every bend in the path presents a prospect indistinguishable from every other, every glimpse into the trees the same tangled mass. For all you know, your route could describe a very large, pointless circle. In a way, it would hardly matter.”

― Bill Bryson,  A Walk in the Woods

Bazaar, Morocco

Photographer Unknown, Bazaar, Morocco

“Men sat behind charcoal braziers turning ears of corn and fanning skewered liver kebabs they slipped sizzling into pockets of lavash bread with a tangle of cilantro and mint. Ribbons of fruit leather, apricot, plum, tamarind, and cherry, draped like laundry from wires strung between awnings.”
― Donia Bijan, The Last Days of Cafe Leila

 

Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders, Title Unknown, (Gold Medal Flour), Polaroid Film

Filmaker Wim Wenders, now 73, was given his first camera as a child in Dusseldorf by his father, a doctor. it became the start of his career in films and photography. He reckons he took more than twelve thousand Polaroids between 1973 and 1983, when his career as a film-maker really took off, but only 3,500 remain.

“The thing is, you gave them away. You had the person in front of you, whose picture you had just taken, and it was like they had more right to it. The Polaroids helped with making the movies, but they were not an aim in themselves. They were disposable.” – Wim Wenders

Neuendorf House

Claudio Silverstrin and John Pawson, Neuendorf House, Courtyard Enclosure, Mallorca, Balearic Islands

The Neuendorf House in Mallorca was designed by John Pawson in partnership with Claudio Silvestrin. Entry to the house involves a theatrical descent between narrow walls past a basin set in a full-height groove. The approach presents, with its acoustics, a calibrated experience of enclosure and compression against the vast landscape that is the house’s context.

The courtyard’s composition si emphatically vertical. The exaggerated height of the walls is dramatised by the narrow slot whose edges emphasizes the wall’s thickness. A modest contrasting horizontal form is added by a bench set very low to the ground. The contrast between the landscape outside and the courtyard space is underlined by the view of the sky above and the landscape seen through the wall’s gap.

Source: just-good-design.com

Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer: Paintings from the “Walhalla” Series

Anselm Kiefer, a German painter and sculptor, was born in 1945 and grew up playing in the rubble of postwar Germany, a childhood that has had a huge effect on his life and art. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. He works incorporating materials into his work, such as straw, ash, clay, lead and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan, whose works were also affected by the horrors of the war, played a role in developing Kiefer’s themes of German history and the horror of the Holocaust.

David Nash

David Nash, “Ash Dome”, 1977, Circle of Ash Trees, Wales

In 1977, sculptor David Nash cleared an area of land near his home in Wales where he trained a circle of 22 ash trees to grow in a vortex-like shape for an artwork titled “Ash Dome”. Over 40 years later, the trees still grow today. The artist has long worked with wood and natural elements in his art practice, often incorporating live trees or even animals into pieces. The exact site of “Ash Dome” in the Snowdonia region of northwest Wales is a closely guarded secret,

“When I first planted the ring of trees for Ash Dome, the Cold War was still a threat. There was serious economic gloom, very high unemployment in our country, and nuclear war was a real possibility… To make a gesture by planting something for the 21st century, which was what Ash Dome was about, was a long-term commitment, an act of faith.“ – David Nash, 2001

Markus Ecke Wie Kante

Markus Ecke Wie Kante, Urbex Places in Germany

Fantastic shots of urbex places around Germany by Markus Ecke Wie Kante, talented self-taught photographer, adventurer and urban explorer based in Berlin, Germany. Markus focuses on abandoned photography. He travels all over Europe to capture impressive urbex places.

Images reblogged with thanks to https://photogrist.com