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Hills and mountains

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Mountain Landscape
Image credit: Glasgow Life Museums

Mountain Landscape

Edward Hargitt (1835–1895)

Glasgow Life Museums

Mountainous landscapes represented wildness and danger in earlier centuries and this was how artists depicted them, in contrast to the productivity of the managed countryside. But in composing a painting, mountains played a vital role in framing the idealised ‘classical landscape’.


The location of the Alps, between Italy and northern Europe, was important in the history of European art.

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They kept two artistic traditions apart but also forced artists and travellers to experience them. During the eighteenth century, increased travel, better roads and better guidebooks slowly enabled mountainous regions to be appreciated artistically. Tourists learned to actively enjoy the fear of travel through gorges and across raging torrents, and in the nineteenth century mountain landscapes became a destination in themselves.

Artworks

  • Mountain Landscape
    Mountain Landscape Edward Hargitt (1835–1895)
    Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC)
  • Gloster Aircraft, Hawker Hurricane
    Gloster Aircraft, Hawker Hurricane C. E. P. Davis (active 1924–1989)
    Museum of Gloucester
  • Clearing Mists, Ribblesdale
    Clearing Mists, Ribblesdale Charles John Holmes (1868–1936)
    Harris Museum & Art Gallery
  • Stranger on the Shore
    Stranger on the Shore Eden Box (1919–1988)
    Southampton City Art Gallery
  • Tamarisk Tree, Lake Como
    Tamarisk Tree, Lake Como Sigismund Christian Hubert Goetze (1866–1939)
    The Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Arthur, 3rd Viscount Irwin (1666–1702)
    Arthur, 3rd Viscount Irwin (1666–1702) Leonard Knyff (1650–1721)
    Temple Newsam House, Leeds Museums and Galleries
  • Study of Pines, Worlebury Woods
    Study of Pines, Worlebury Woods Charles Edward Wright (1830–1905)
    North Somerset Council
  • 3,278 more

Stories

  • Art and slate: the slate landscape of north-west Wales

    Mari Griffith

  • Stanislawa de Karlowska: the Polish-born woman at the forefront of the British avant-garde

    Rebecca Lloyd James

  • 'A place in the heart: Kyffin and East Anglesey' at Oriel Môn

    Ffion Griffiths

  • Richard Wilson: the father of British landscape painting

    Paul Spencer-Longhurst

  • Josef Herman: the Polish painter who found himself in Wales

    Maggie Gray

  • 1924 (?), watercolour on paper by David Jones (1895–1974)
    'Hill-rhythms': David Jones and Capel-y-ffin

    Peter Wakelin

  • Hills and home: Ernest Zobole's visions from the valleys

    Ellie Evelyn Orrell

  • Beacons of Romanticism: Romantic landscapes in Breconshire

    Peter Wakelin

  • Angela Palmer with 'Tower of Time'
    Deep time: new sculpture by Angela Palmer

    Angela Palmer

  • Kyffin Williams: prolific Welsh painter of melancholy mountains

    Rian Evans

  • Self Portrait
    Frozen swallows and turn-ups: Gabriel Loppé at the Alpine Club

    Nigel Buckley and Simon Pierse

  • Archibald Kay's 'The Quarry, Furnace'

    Valerie Boa

  • A memorial to George Mallory, mountaineering mystery

    Richard Foster

  • The stark monochromatic paintings of Jack Simcock

    Sonia Roe

  • Derwent Lees: 'the most modern of the Modernists'

    Richard Morris

  • Scottish independence: Scotland's national identity in art before the Act of Union

    Fern Insh

  • Sheila Fell: capturing the drama of Cumberland

    Wendy Gray

  • Marianne North: a trailblazing artist

    Andrew Shore

  • Patterns in the sky: the mysterious landscapes of Sidney Herbert Sime

    Jade King

Learning resources

  • acnmw-acnmw-nmw-a-24992-001-1-1.jpg
    Lesson plan
    The Superpower of Looking: a colourful Welsh landscape by Mary Lloyd Jones
    • KS2 (ENG)
      KS2 (NI)
      CfE L2 (SCO)
      PS3 (WAL)
  • acnmw-acnmw-nmw-a-24992-001-1-1.jpg
    Lesson plan
    Grym y Gweld: tirlun Cymreig lliwgar gan Mary Lloyd Jones
    • PS3 (WAL)
  • esx-pscc-ps46-1-001-1.jpg
    Round-up
    Drawing resources
    • KS2 (ENG)
      KS2 (NI)
      CfE L2 (SCO)
      PS3 (WAL)
      KS3 (ENG)
      KS4 (ENG)
      KS3 (NI)
      KS4 (NI)
      CfE L3 (SCO)
      CfE L4 (SCO)
      KS3 (WAL)
      KS4 (WAL)
  • dn-collage-column-details-resized-1.jpg
    Lesson plan
    David Nash: shapes and textures from nature into art
    • KS2 (ENG)
      KS2 (NI)
      PS3 (WAL)
      CfE L2 (SCO)
  • cook-resource-thumbnail-1.jpg
    Lesson plan
    Captain Cook: from Tees Valley to Tierra del Fuego
    • KS2 (ENG)
      KS2 (NI)
      CfE L2 (SCO)
      PS3 (WAL)
  • acnmw-acnmw-nmw-a-24992-001-1.jpg
    Audio
    Audio description of 'Pwerdy Ceunant' by Mary Lloyd Jones
    • KS2 (ENG)
      KS2 (NI)
      CfE L2 (SCO)
      PS3 (WAL)
      SEND (ENG)
      SEND (NI)
      ASN (SCO)
      SEND (WAL)
  • acnmw-acnmw-nmw-a-24992-001-1.jpg
    Audio
    Disgrifiad sain o 'Pwerdy Ceunant' gan Mary Lloyd Jones
    • PS3 (WAL)
      SEND (WAL)
  • stf-walg-2007-010-p-001-2-1.jpg
    Lesson plan
    The Superpower of Looking: a landscape of the imagination in collage
    • KS2 (ENG)
      KS2 (NI)
      CfE L2 (SCO)
      PS3 (WAL)
  • sarah-graham-walsall-1.png
    Video
    The Superpower of Looking with Sarah Graham in Walsall
    • KS2 (ENG)
      KS2 (NI)
      CfE L2 (SCO)
      PS3 (WAL)
      KS3 (ENG)
      KS3 (NI)
      CfE L3 (SCO)
      KS3 (WAL)
  • stf-walg-2007-010-p-001-1.jpg
    Audio
    Audio description of 'Rhodroponicum' by Melanie Carvalho
    • KS2 (ENG)
      KS2 (NI)
      CfE L2 (SCO)
      PS3 (WAL)
      SEND (ENG)
      SEND (NI)
      ASN (SCO)
      SEND (WAL)
  • angharad-with-painting-1.png
    Video
    The Superpower of Looking with Angharad Pearce Jones
    • KS2 (ENG)
      KS2 (NI)
      CfE L2 (SCO)
      PS3 (WAL)
      KS3 (ENG)
      KS3 (NI)
      CfE L3 (SCO)
      KS3 (WAL)
  • angharad-with-painting-1.png
    Video
    Grym y Gweld gydag Angharad Pearce Jones
    • PS3 (WAL)
      KS3 (WAL)

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