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Roger 3169 7333 Haslemere	RE: Mountain pictorial paintings. A contrast of styles 1/23/2011 7:45:29 PM
	Quote: Hi Roger, I think the staple in this picture is a little over kill, never saw one so huge, or high or whatever. That's lovely Myrna. You are so right. What amazes me is that this artist was one who was around as photography developed and this freed up artists to create beautiful images based upon real life but majoring on colour or light or shapes. Just look how modern this feels. Glorious shapes and colours. So glad you came here Myrna. Roger
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Brent 25 10 London	RE: Mountain pictorial paintings. A contrast of styles 1/23/2011 8:58:42 PM
	This is a beautiful forum Roger. You do us a service here with these images. A very good idea to bring different artists on one theme. I look forward to more.

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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: Mountain pictorial paintings. A contrast of styles 1/23/2011 9:28:59 PM
	Hello Roger and Friends, Mountains in art are an individual topic that I have not cared much about in the past, at least not consciously; only recently did I when I started my forum on Nicholas Roerich, who as you know had them as a main element in about eighty percent of his paintings, if not more. I guess all this is due to the fact that mountains seem to have become a subject for painting only relatively recently, if at all because landscapes themselves began to be only recently too. Before that, they were only present in paintings as a decorative element on their backgorunds, for example in several of Leonardo's masterworks. Of course, the previous commentary only applies to western art, for as concerns Chinese and in a lesser extent Japaneese art (I suppose because except for Mount Fuji, they don't have too many in their country), mountains were most frequent in their paintings or, rather, prints. The beautiful example shown by Sara in this thread is only one of thousands where the favorite topic was a sage in meditation at the edge of a big foggy mountain, with perhaps a solitary tree for all company. Among the Japaneese artists, Hokusai seems to have so much loved Mount Fuji that he completed a most famous series of a hundred prints portraying it (don's miss an outstanding selection of them HERE.) In the case of western art, only Thomas Moran and relatively few other great landscape painters seem to have been interested in mountains as a subject per se for their paintings and again, only in relatively recent times. For my part, I have always deeply admired Thomas Moran's landscapes, but only now am I beginning to appreciate the art of other outstanding landscape painters with an eye for mountains mainly thanks to you and this forum. Back to Nicholas Roerich, he seems to have been the only landscape painter in the west (and maybe in the entire world) to portray mountains, and also clouds, displaying fantastic forms suggesting human (?) faces and even entire figures. I will try to make a sample of these to show here soon, but for the moment I will only show one of each below. Best Wishes, Miguel Zoroaster (1931) Gesar Khan. 1941
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Roger 3169 7333 Haslemere	RE: Mountain pictorial paintings. A contrast of styles 1/23/2011 10:20:27 PM
	Hello Luis, Yes Roerich has often used those wonderful cloud formations. You have given me a challenge now. I have a book that I assumed was pictures of hundreds of mountains in Japan. As it is all in oriental script I just assumed it was about Japanese mountains. I will now have to check. Roger
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Roger 3169 7333 Haslemere	RE: Mountain pictorial paintings. A contrast of styles 1/23/2011 10:26:17 PM
	Luis, Take a look at this. There are apparently MANY mountains in Japan. I was surprised too. http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1436&bih=699&q=japanese+mountains&gbv=2&aq=0&aqi=g4g-m1&aql=&oq=Japanese+mountains Roger
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