Paul Nash (1889–1946): A key modern British artist who explored the mystical and symbolic "sense of place" in the English landscape.
He enlisted in the Artists’ Rifles. A fall into a trench that broke a rib invalided him home just before most of his unit was wiped out at Passchendaele — an accident that probably saved his life. He then became an official war artist and wrote a famous letter to his wife describing the Western Front as a “frightful nightmare of a country more conceived by Dante or Poe than by nature,” declaring “I am no longer an artist… I am a messenger” who would bring back “a bitter truth.” His WWI paintings focus on shattered landscapes and trees rather than bodies. He served again in WWII despite chronic asthma.
PAINTERS OF LANDSCAPES – GREAT BRITAIN
J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) Turner transformed British landscape and marine art with his swirling atmospheres and dramatic skies..
At the 1832 Royal Academy Varnishing Days, Turner hung his cool-toned seascape Helvoetsluys next to Constable’s more colorful The Opening of Waterloo Bridge. While Constable worked on it, Turner added a small, vivid red daub to his own grey sea and left. He later refined it into a buoy. Constable famously remarked that Turner “has been here and fired a gun,” feeling the flash of red upstaged him.
John Constable (1776–1837): Famous for his affectionate, naturalistic depictions of the English countryside—particularly the Dedham Vale area along the River Stour.
More admired in France (where The Hay Wain influenced the Barbizon painters and later Impressionists) than at home during his lifetime.
The info about KEVIN KIA is from GROK. Images credit to many sites.
Kevin Kia (born in 1981) is a digital artist. He creates atmospheric, painterly digital landscapes and scenes—focused on light, color, mood, and nature or cityscapes.
Before focusing on art, he spent about 20 years in science, earning two PhDs (in medicinal chemistry and pharmacy). He has described the shift as returning to something he always carried with him—drawing and color from childhood.
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El Castillo del Parque Rodó.
Fue construido en 1895 como parte del Parque Urbano e inaugurado en 1903.
Durante 30 años funcionó como depósito de herramientas y materiales para mantenimiento del parque.
Desde 1935 funciona la Biblioteca Pública Infantil María Stagnero de Munar. – at Montevideo, Uruguay
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Casa Fauno es un restaurante y espacio cultural ubicado en una casona histórica de estilo ecléctico y Art Nouveau en el barrio Parque Rodó, Dr. Luis Piera 2031.
La edificación original tiene más de un siglo y fue diseñada por el arquitecto Alfredo Massüe.
Montevideo. Uruguay – at Montevideo, Uruguay
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National Flower Day, October 7, commemorates the day in 1986 when President Ronald Reagan declared the rose the national flower of the United States.
Roses at a Lake by Licinio Barzanti (c. 1900)
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The Sunflower by Gustav Klimt (1907)
