> > > > My favorite was of Rannoch Moor, the flat light gives it a > > tapestry/painted feeling to it. It's the one that makes me look > > repeatedly. > > My favorite too. It evokes for me Albert Bierstadt's paintings. > > http://hoocher.com/Albert_Bierstadt/Albert_Bierstadt.htm >
All very sublime. I quite like those paintings, but I fear my like may be dictated by my Pleistocene ancestry rather than my refined artistic sensibilities: "The idea of a pervasive Pleistocene taste in landscape received support from an unusual project undertaken by two Russian émigré artists, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid [...] Respondents expressed a liking for realistic representative paintings. Preferred elements included water, trees and other plants, human beings (with a preference for women and children, and also for historical figures, such as Jomo Kenyatta or Sun Yat-sen), and animals, especially large mammals, both wild and domestic. [...] Komar and Melamid then produced a favourite painting for each country. [...] Americas Most Wanted, as it was titled, presented a Hudson River School scene, with George Washington standing beside a lake in which a large hippo is bellowing. " >From <http://www.denisdutton.com/aesthetics_&_evolutionary_psychology.htm> <http://awp.diaart.org/km/usa/most.html> <http://awp.diaart.org/km/> Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
