Nature in Art and Art in Nature
“What is art? Nature concentrated.” Honore de Balzac
Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art Disciplines Poetry Photography Film Sculpture Mixed Media Music Dance Painting
William Keith
Thomas Moran
Road To Quartz Mountain Carol Beesley
Albert Bierstadt
Mirror Chen Yanning
James Audubon
John Holbrooke
Roger Tory Peterson
Alexander Wilson
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist” Edgar Allen Poe
Franz Marc
Georgia O’Keefe
Picasso
Salvador Dali
Charles M Russell
In the Studio with Maria Tallchief Mike Larsen
American Masters Mike Larsen
William R Leigh
Deer #1 Joe Andoe
Steve Bloom
William G Hartshorn
Van Gogh
Georgette Douwma
Marianne Bernhardt
Centaur #1 (Icons and Apparitions) Fritz Scholder
Photography
Ken Ward
Ranchland Morley Baer
John Lawrence
Raul Touzon
Ansel Adams
Carlton Watkins
Harold Davis
Ratier
Sculpture
Tree #1 (Positive) Menashe Kadishman
Tree #2 (Negative) Menashe Kadishman
Moonring Jesús Moroles
As Long as the Waters Flow by Allan Houser
Junktures
Peter Helzer
William Nutt
Survivor Ron Bertocchi
Mixed Media
Dancer of Illusion Suzanne Klontz Riley
The Wildlife at Quartz Mountain Don Nice
Music
Peter and the Wolf Sergei Prokofiev
The Lion King
Film
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.” Vincent van Gogh
Walt Disney
Dance
Swan Lake Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Happy Feet
Poetry
The snow-covered tree Sparkles in the soft moonlight. The wind rushes by.
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. Joyce Kilmer
'O DREARY life,' we cry, ' O dreary life ! ' And still the generations of the birds Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and herds Serenely live while we are keeping strife With Heaven's true purpose in us, as a knife Against which we may struggle ! ….. Patience Taught By Nature Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nature -- sometimes sears a Sapling -- Sometimes -- scalps a Tree -- Her Green People recollect it When they do not die -- Fainter Leaves -- to Further Seasons -- Dumbly testify -- We -- who have the Souls -- Die oftener -- Not so vitally -- ” Nature -- sometimes sears a Sapling Emily Dickinson
“To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.” Auguste Rodin
David M Dennis