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    Lectures on Landscape
    Lectures on Landscape
    Lectures on Landscape
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    Lectures on Landscape

    By John Ruskin

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    According to Wikipedia: "John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic, stage writer, and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455327270

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      Lectures on Landscape - John Ruskin

      LECTURES ON LANDSCAPE BY JOHN RUSKIN

      Published by Seltzer Books

      established in 1974

      offering over 14,000 books

      feedback welcome: seltzer@seltzerbooks.com

      Books about Architecture available from Seltzer Books:

      The Poetry of Architecture by Ruskin

      The Seven Lamps of Architecture by Ruskin

      Lectures on Architecture and Painting by Ruskin

      Lectures on Landscape by Ruskin

      New from Nowhere by William Morris

      An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius

      Dictionnaire Raisonne de l'Architecture Francaise du Xie au XVie Siecle

      A Text-Book of the History of Architectre by Hamlin

      Garden Design and Architects' Gardens by Robinson

      Architecture by Mrs. Arthur Bell

      DELIVERED AT OXFORD, IN LENT TERM, 1871.

      from The Complete Works of John Ruskin

      Library Edition

      NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

      NEW YORK CHICAGO

      PREFATORY NOTE.

      I. OUTLINE.

      II. LIGHT AND SHADE.

      III. COLOR.

      FOOTNOTES

      BRANTWOOD, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH

      PREFATORY NOTE.

      THESE Lectures on Landscape were given at Oxford on January 20, February 9, and February 23, 1871. They were not public Lectures, like Professor Ruskin's other courses, but addressed only to undergraduates who had joined his class. They were illustrated by pictures from his collection, of which several are here reproduced, and by others which may be seen in the Oxford University Galleries or in the Ruskin Drawing School.

      W.G.C.

      I. OUTLINE.

      1. In my inaugural lecture,[1] I stated that while holding this professorship I should direct you, in your practical exercises, chiefly to natural history and landscape. And having in the course of the past year laid the foundational elements of art sufficiently before you, I will invite you, now, to enter on real work with me; and accordingly I propose during this and the following term to give you what practical leading I can in elementary study of landscape, and of a branch of natural history which will form a kind of center for all the rest—Ichthyology.

      In the outset I must shortly state to you the position which landscape painting and animal painting hold towards the higher branches of art.

      2. Landscape painting is the thoughtful and passionate representation of the physical conditions appointed for human existence. It imitates the aspects, and records the phenomena, of the visible things which are dangerous or beneficial to men; and displays the human methods of dealing with these, and of enjoying them or suffering from them, which are either exemplary or deserving of sympathetic contemplation. Animal painting investigates the laws of greater and less nobility of character in organic form, as comparative anatomy examines those of greater and less development in organic structure; and the function of animal painting is to bring into notice the minor and unthought of conditions of power or beauty, as that of physiology is to ascertain the minor conditions of adaptation.

      3. Questions as to the purpose of arrangements or the use of the organs of an animal are, however, no less within the province of the painter than of the physiologist, and are indeed more likely to commend themselves to you through drawing than dissection. For as you dissect an animal you generally assume its form to be necessary and only examine how it is constructed; but in drawing the outer form itself attentively you are led necessarily to consider the mode of life for which it is disposed, and therefore to be struck by any awkwardness or apparent uselessness in its parts. After sketching one day several heads of birds it became a vital matter of interest to me to know the use of the bony process on the head of the hornbill; but on asking a great physiologist, I found that it appeared to him an absurd question, and was certainly an unanswerable one.

      4. I have limited, you have just heard, landscape painting to the representation of phenomena relating to human life. You will scarcely be disposed to admit the propriety of such a limitation; and you will still less be likely to conceive its necessary strictness and severity, unless I convince you of it by somewhat detailed examples.

      Here are two landscapes by Turner in his greatest time—Vesuvius in repose, Vesuvius in eruption.

      One is a beautiful harmony of cool color; and the other of hot, and they are both exquisitely designed in ornamental lines. But they are not painted for those qualities. They are painted because the state of the scene in one case is full of delight to men; and in the other of pain and danger. And it is not Turner's object at all to exhibit or illustrate natural phenomena, however interesting in themselves.

      VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION. From the painting by Turner.

      He does not want to paint blue mist in order to teach you the nature of evaporation; nor this lava stream, to explain to you the operation of gravity on ponderous and viscous materials. He paints the blue mist, because it brings life and joy to men, and the lava stream because it is death to them.

      5. Again here are two sea-pieces by Turner of the same period—photographs from them at least.

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