Beauty and images from nature are never permanent in a tangible sense. The weather is ever changing, plants and animals are moving and dying, and landscapes are altered by humans and natural disasters. How can the beauty of a landscape or naturally occuring beauty created by the earth itself being captured? A painting, a photo or a memory is how.
A beautiful sunset lasts less than an hour,a rainbow a few minutes and a lightning stirke only a second. Using a camera to capture these natural beauties is an easy way to freeze these moments in time and share the wonderful image with others. But before cameras were invented, paintings were the only way to record the natural beauty of our world.
In these paintings, the artist is at liberty to create a landscape as he/ she sees it. Each artist has their own style and will portray the beauty and wonder of the subject being recreated as it seen by them. Some subjects and works can be considered to be unimpressive when viewed directly, such as a hill side and creek. But when painted by an artist who sees the beauty in the landscape, it can be moving and beautiful.
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