Making Nature explores the way in which European artists since the Renaissance have represented the landscape according to three different ideologies: the ideal, the romantic and the realistic. Through superb oil paintings, sculptures, watercolours, prints, drawings and photographs from the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, visitors to this exhibition experience the emotive powers, serenity and poetry of nature.
Explore the works of the masters of the European landscape tradition through its greatest exponents:
Titian,
Claude Lorrain, Rembrandt,
Joseph Wright of Derby,
J.M.W. Turner,
James McNeill Whistler,
Eugène Boudin,
Vanessa Bell,
Lucien Pissarro,
Nikolaus Lang and
Andy Goldsworthy.
At a time when environmental issues are being so fiercely debated around the world, there is perhaps no better time to review how man has imagined or evaluated his relationship with nature and art through the ages.