Busacca Gallery

Sunny's Harbor by artist Simon Kozhin: Committed to the Russian realistic school, graduate of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, he aspires for absolute fidelity in reproducing the reality. The artist’s range of interests is wide: historical picture, still life, landscape, illustration. Unusual is his approach to solution of each new canvas, no formulas, nothing typical. Some canvases appeal at once – by the consummate craft, fullness of colour and light, and feel. Others require focused attention, contemplation, rational approach. The painter works a lot with landscapes. His series of Moscow views, deserves special attention. Crimean Landscape is full with freshness, sunny, airy, compositionally adjusted. The picture captivates by its multi-colourness, yet this garishness is unimposing, all colours in harmony.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_art

Landscape art and landscape painting:



Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather usually is an element of the composition. Traditionally, landscape art depicts the surface of the earth, but there are other sorts of landscapes, such as moonscapes. The word landscape is from the Dutch, landschap meaning a sheaf, a patch of cultivated ground. The word entered the English vocabulary of the connoisseur in the late 17th century. The Chinese tradition of "pure" landscape, in which the minute human figure simply gives scale and invites the viewer to participate in the experience, was well established by the time the oldest surviving ink paintings were executed. landscape painting was the "chief artistic creation of the nineteenth century", with the result that in the following period people were "apt to assume that the appreciation of natural beauty and the painting of landscape is a normal and enduring part of our spiritual activity.