Groundsite Image Gallery
Autumn Road, by Kate Beaver
Artist: Fine Arts, KU
Season: Fall
Medium: oil on canvas
Height: 18.500"
Width: 22.500"
Keywords: mcCrea farm, lecompton
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Landscape. When people think of this word, the idea is of a pretty scene overlooking a misty valley or a babbling brook in a secluded area of a dense forest. But landscapes are more than that. They are alive, not static scenes of cute forest animals congregating on the bank of a creek. They truly have a persona of their own; each landscape brings a certain mood that the viewer automatically registers when looking at a painting or even the physical terrain they are walking upon. A landscape is figural, dynamic, has its own personality, its own physicality, which is unique unto itself.
“For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.” —Bridget Riley
—Kate Beaver, 12-18-09