City landscape: elegance, simplicity and versatility.

The urban landscape is the direction in painting, which was the result of the development of landscape painting for several centuries. Even in the 15th century, architectural landscapes became widespread. They depicted views of the city in a huge bird's-eye view. On such interesting and exciting canvases, modernity and antiquity merged, in addition, there were also elements of fiction there.

The urban landscape underwent changes as the development of painting, as such. After the architectural landscape, much later, a Venetian landscape or vedet appeared. He was particularly closely associated with two names - Bellini and Carpaccio. He was the closest to the understanding of this trend, which is now. Artists of that era were able to find the balance and balance between documenting the exact reality of the city and its interpretation with a touch of romance.

Further urban landscape, as a direction in painting, received a significant contribution from the impressionists: Pissarro, K. Monet and other equally well-known people. After that, the search began for the best color solutions, ways of displaying, and, as accurately as possible, depicting the "trembling of the atmosphere" that is characteristic of cities. The city landscapes of A. Marke were distinguished by the nobility of forms and simplicity, they were especially expressive. And the artist Kustodiev created a unique, magnificent picture of the life of various cities of his time.

Currently, the city landscape depicts not only traffic jams and promiscuous crowds of people in various streets, but also an elegant fountain in a quiet, cozy park, old streets, sunlight reflected in the windows of houses and flickering in the web of wires. City landscapes with oil or watercolors are always well sold at various exhibitions, they carry a special charge of cheerfulness, optimism, they are always refined and beautiful. Therefore, now this direction in painting continues to attract a huge number of not only artists, but also art connoisseurs in many countries of the world.

Fans of calm romance prefer a style such as a night landscape. He has the features of spiritual perfection, solitude, meditation and self-knowledge. Despite the fact that night landscapes are painted in dark tones, they do not create the impression of gloomy pictures. After all, the place that seemed so familiar to the day, at night becomes simply mysterious, magical and mysterious.

Nevertheless, the night landscape is not very common among contemporary artists. The night theme is more often used in art, pop and other urban areas. Often, in this picture, aggression, tragedy and rejection of the world are seen. In fact, the night landscape should make people think about the best aspects of human life, to seek ways to self-improvement and self-knowledge. Real connoisseurs of all beauty never fail to pay attention to the philosophically pensive, quiet dreaminess of night scenery.

Currently, the night landscape can take a variety of forms. He is influenced by existing trends in painting, echoes them, and therefore often written in a conservative or classical form, corresponds to the canons of neoclassicism. Half a century ago the notion of landscape did not embrace such a large circle of subjects, as it is now. Today night city landscapes are especially popular. They are characterized by bright light sources, isolation of individual architectural elements, an image of mostly deserted streets, shallow shadows. These pictures bear youth, optimism and admiration. Night and city landscapes invariably find a response in the souls of many connoisseurs of sensual and beautiful painting.