Article comparisment of paintings with two different digital SLRs cameras (Traditionally realistic artwork - art - romanticism painting - realism paintings in oil on canvas of the Dutch writer and romantic landscape painter Jan G. Marque).

Article comparisment of paintings with two different digital SLRs cameras 2

Why you must view a painting in real life if you like it.

Seeing is believing. But not for viewing photos of paintings. That what you're looking at is not representative of the real thing. But also, and perhaps even more importantly, that there is such difference in the quality of photos that it's almost impossible to get a good photo capture of a painting for presentation purposes. For a first impression photographs are a good medium. You can show what you have in general. But that's all It is.

Photographing paintings is such a difficult task, I will show it by means of two examples. The first example is the painting "Wooded Landscape with castle ruin" of 2008. This work was photographed with two different digital SLRs cameras. Many people have never seen this work in real life. They know it only by the first pictures that appeared on the Internet and in various media between 2008 and 2011.

See the differences between the two cameras:

First picture as it appeared between 2008 and 2011 on the Internet and in various publications.

First picture as it appeared between 2008 and 2011 on the Internet and in various publications.

The latest picture of the same painting.

Here is another example of a painting I've made in 2010: "The Chartres cathedral at the Brabantse Wal at Hoogerheide and Woensdrecht" (The Netherlands). The first two photos were taken with the same digital SLR camera at different times of tha day (morning and afternoon). The third photo was taken with a different digital SLR camera (morning).

Now see the difference:

First picture taken with camera 1 in the morning.

First picture taken with camera 1 in the morning.

Second picture taken with camera 1 in the afternoon.

Third picture taken with camera 2 at the end of the morning.

So now you see why, if you like a painting, you must view it in real life. So you can convert the first impression into a true tangible memory. I hereby would like to invite you for the next exhibition of my romantic landscape paintings or in my studio at my home.

Jan G. Marque

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The landscape art and the romantic painter art in the new romanticism of Jan G. Marque.

The romantic tradition.
A continuation.

Landscapes. For centuries they’re being used in art as background for a another subject, or to serve as a subject in itself.

These words sound in a part of the work of the Dutch writer and art painter Jan G. Marque, who wants to indicate that the landscape painting has a long tradition within painter art.
Although for the most part Marque’s work exists out of what he calls Philosophical Realism; -artwork where combined word- and image-symbolism stimulate people into searching for subjects and let them reflect on it- with his romantic landscapes he chooses for another approach. The undergoing of the image with feeling by the spectator is the main point.
He accomplish this with a traditional palette in oil on canvas. By means of sharp brushstrokes he creates colourful, virtuoso, romantic landscapes which are manufactured with much feeling and eye for detail. Here the landscape indicates the looking direction, and the found light holds the eye of the spectator.

Marque gives us with his impressive work deliberately a glimpse to the past. They who make one’s way to the woods and know the beauty of nature, certainly recognise an image which also represents the present. Here the painter in him obtains his inspiration. Many travels and walking in nature ensure sufficient information and inspiration to devise at home. Every landscape has been built from fragments of images such as Jan G. Marque for the most part in reality has seen and experienced on one of his travels. This, completed with own ideas where he idealises the landscape just like its predecessors, he paints without using sketches and pre-studies, direct on canvas.

By the centuries gone the landscape inspired, got its by-effect in several trends, knew varied styles and captivated above all. Their sources: the love for nature, the tension and perception, the changing light. The `landscape' can delight itself thus in a broad public interest. Not only the contemporary physical perception speaks to the imagination. Particularly the landscape in art captivates many and authoritative art painters have built a long tradition in this multi-purpose area. Names as Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Johan Bernhard Klombeck, Frederik Marinus Kruseman and Andreas Schelfhout, but also Gerard Bilders, Wijnand Nuyen, Louwrens Hanedoes en Willem Roelofs, are still living representatives of the romantic tradition. A tradition which Marque continues himself thus with much pleasure and with his own brushstroke.

One thing is certain, the romantic landscapes of Jan G. Marque are timeless and inspiring.

Article has been paraphrased composed from Dutch sources mentioned below:

Realisme Magazine; edition 2008
Nieuwsbank.nl; article Februari 2009
Moving Art Magazine; edition July 2009