Sunset over the river Albert Bierstadt

Vue de Zermatt

Felix Edouard Vallotton

1865 1925

Oil on canvass

As another contrast I wanted to bring this picture here.

Although not a painting (photograph, altered on Corel program). It is beautiful and an art form that we will become more and more used to.

This deserves a place here and was produced by our good friend Luis.

View from Huaraz

This was the nearest that I could find of a mountain to bring you from the wonderful master painter David.

A wonderfully talented painter

Jacques-louis David

This is taken from wikipedia:

Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened feeling^[1] chiming with the moral climate of the final years of the ancien régime.

David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794), and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic. Imprisoned after Robespierre's fall from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release, that of Napoleon I. It was at this time that he developed his 'Empire style', notable for its use of warm Venetian colours. David had a huge number of pupils, making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century, especially academic Salon painting.

Sunset over the river Albert Bierstadt