Abstract
Cityscape painting or Urban Landscape Painting is an art that depends on city scenes and their elements such as streets, buildings, types, composition and other city elements. This kind of art considers cities as a source of inspiration, because it reflects all the different sides of the cities like its identity, ancientness, modernity, size, density, interstitial space built forms, and of course the architectural design. Moreover, this research is concerned with this form of art that reflects all the differences between the artists’ technical trends and the artistic visions of each one separately. This will be discussed given the interest to find the mutual effective relationship between the artist and the city through an analytical comparison between different examples of paintings that dealt with cities as a subject.
Highlights
Cityscape painting or Urban Landscape Painting is an art that depends on city scenes and their elements such as streets, buildings, types, composition and other city elements
Photorealist and hyperrealist painters have made an important contribution to cityscape painting in more recent times (Cityscape Art: A Walk Through History, 2015)
Cityscape painting is an art that depends on city scenes and all their elements
Summary
“Whether we are aware of it or not, architecture is a part of everybody’s personal history. Since the beginning of human history, artists were inspired by everything that falls under their sights from nature to things surrounding them. They get their inspiration from a number of different objects and for a lot of purposes, motivations, incentives, rationales, intentions, rituals, ceremonies, or cultural traditions to make their visual arts. Artists have other aesthetic considerations that differ from our understanding of art today (Lamp, n.d.) This happens when a piece of architecture becomes pleasant to draw or paint in great art works, in this type of painting, artists use light, shadow, perspective, lines and styles (Schaller, 1998). It reverberates several parts of cities like skylines, buildings, streets, parks and the main structural specifications of cities which we consider the urban landscape (Cityscape Art: A Walk Through History, 2015)
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