Landscape Art of Painting and Romanticism. Romantic Landscapes of Jan G. Marque. Who is Dr. Kamt? Who is Dr. Kamt? To track the meaning of the subject within Philosophical Realism it is not enough to only find out the meaning of the words (symbolism). You must also find the meaning of the image symbolism. So the question arises, what image symbolism do we discover? The painting offers two viewing directions. The spectator is drawn into them immediately. Through the wolf to the horizon at the right side, and through the water and the wild plants to the person with the hat and cape on the left. In the painting you can see that besides the normal path, which probably goes from a to b, the regular path, another one is visible that runs around an old oak tree. This path is often treads, because it is ingrained in the landscape considerably. Around the path specific wild plants flourish in a transitional area of heath land to forest. The person with the hat and cape even stands between the wild plants and provides the spectator an open and a closed book. Meanwhile, a black wolf watches the beholder with tight piercing eyes. He stands, like the person, not on the normal path but in the open field. The viewer must get past the animal in order to gaze at the horizon. In other words, you can’t just pass the wolf. The tree in the middle of the circular path holds the beginning on one of its branches. Combine these meanings with the words and you can look for the subject. A piece of the subject; “Who is Dr. Kamt?” unveils itself on your way to the subject. For more details, please look below at an enlargement of the painting. Enjoy. Landscape Art of Painting and Romanticism. Romantic Landscapes of Jan G. Marque. Who is Dr. Kamt? This page is part of: The landscape art and the romantic painter art in the new romanticism of Jan G. Marque. More information about the artwork Dawn of Dr. Kamt 70 x 50 cm 2010. 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