Beauty natural landscape pictures

Beauty natural landscape pictures


Beauty natural landscape pictures


Beauty natural landscape pictures

Landscape design that late eighteenth century contextual theorists held that landscapes should be designed with a picturesque 'transition' from the works of man to the works of nature. The aim of the picturesque, as shown in [Fig 3.12], was to create a transition from art to nature. Normally, the transition progressed from a geometrical area near the house, through a serpentine park in the manner of Capability Brown, to an irregular natural area which formed a backdrop. The theory is known as 'picturesque' because it was inspired by the idea of organising a landscape, like a picture, with a transition from foreground to middleground to background. I used the name Transition Style for layouts based on this idea in a book on English Garden Design: history and styles since 1650 (Turner, 1986). It is based on landscape painting and draws from the whole eighteenth century landscape movement.