The 'Landscape / Image / Photography' exhibition offers a compelling look into the historical evolution of landscape photography. It traces the genre's deep relationship with landscape painting, examining artistic techniques and conceptual shifts from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. Discover evolving perspectives on objectivity, monumentality, and subjective experience as they shaped nature's depiction in visual art.
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This exhibition examines the emergence and development of landscape photography as a genre, tracing its relationship with landscape painting from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. It explores how photography adopted and interacted with painting's approaches to nature representation through three distinct sections focusing on objectivity, monumentality, and subjective experience.
The exhibition 'Landscape / Image / Photography' delves into the historical and artistic connections between photography and painting, particularly concerning the depiction of landscape. It highlights how landscape photography emerged as a distinct genre following photography's invention, requiring a significant intellectual shift in the perception and appreciation of nature as an artistic subject. The exhibition is structured into three thematic sections. The first section explores an approach focused on capturing visual aspects of the environment through individual experience and objective depiction, a tension prominent in the Biedermeier era and early landscape photography. The second section addresses a Bohemian trend towards monumentality, which translated romantic conceptions into personally detached statements and pictorial clichés, often paraphrased by photography. The third section investigates the radical abandonment of stereotypes in the 1890s, where both art forms emphasized subjective experience and the discovery of landscape's structural and symbolic meanings. Showcasing a significant selection of Czech landscape photography from the mid-19th to the first decade of the 20th century, sourced from the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, the exhibition is complemented by paintings and prints from prominent Prague institutions. Notable photographers featured include Jindřich Eckert, František Drtikol, Jaroslav Feyfar, and Karel Maria Chotek, alongside painters such as Antonín Mánes, Julius Mařák, and Jakub Schikaneder.
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