![]() The phrase rolling hills is often used in descriptions of attractive landscapes with many gentle hills: Everywhere you look, there are rolling hills. A hilly area has lots of hills: The countryside round here is very hilly. Other words describe the shape of the land. Sun-baked, meanwhile, describes land that is hard and dry because it has received so little rain for so long: The sun-baked earth was full of cracks. Land that is extremely dry because rain has not fallen for a long time is often said to be parched: parched earth/fields. (A technical description for an area that has little rain but is not completely dry is semi-arid: a semi-arid zone.) Meanwhile, a landscape that has few or no plants because there is so little rain may be described as arid: Few animals can survive in this arid desert landscape. A more literary word for this is verdant: All around her were verdant meadows. An area that is especially green, in a way that is attractive, may also be described as lush: lush green valleys. ![]() To start with the most basic description, an area of land that is mainly covered with grass or trees is often described as green: There are so few green spaces in the city. Have you ever wanted to describe an area of the countryside but found you didn’t have the right words? If so, we’ll fix that this week with a look at words and phrases that we use to describe different landscapes. In which comes across in the way he's managed to capture his own passion and closeness to the land.By Kate Woodford john finney photography/Moment/Getty He did a lot of preparation sketches out in the countryside, but he actually painted this in his studio. He's looking at this Industrial Revolution that's eating up the British countryside, holding up this beautiful, green, still, pleasant lifestyle as something that's in reaction to that industrialization of Britain. The work also strikes a very nostalgic tone. So although it's nostalgic for a time before the machination of the Industrial Revolution came along, it's also harkens back to his youth, because the land where the scene was set was owned by his father. This scene was actually painted not in the countryside, but in Constable's London studio. ![]() People were traveling around in Rome and copying people who'd gone before, and their ideas of light and colour what picturesque, beautiful places would look like. And what Constable is doing is he's turning the lens back on the UK and saying, Look at our wonderful countryside. And in a sense that is what was intended, to be kind of a quintessential English countryside scene,very green, and beautiful. But it is actually quite unique because what Constable was doing was reflecting the landscape back onto Britain. Because before this, everyone was always looking to Italy, looking abroad, that beautiful paradise that you wanted to go and capture. In addition to that, in the early 19th century in London the Industrial Revolution was in full swing and Romantic painter John Constable was working on his most famous work “The Hay Wain (1921)” best known for painting these beautiful, pastoral scenes in the English countryside. You don't get it all at once pictures educate signs discipline mass language always tends to speak in the imperative voice the idea of sitting down and painting this landscape like an impressionist was obviously observed but how could our defend itself against torrent of signs which were more vivid than its own images by assimilating by grafting the vitality of media on to what had become a wilting language that at any rate was the hope in the 19th century the world of the industrial revolution appeared in landscape painting slowly pushing its way into a fixed aesthetic category like an intruder in paradise manufacture invading nature. Only it isn't any better for being handmade, pictures are different they're more complicated they mean a lot of things you scan them and their meaning adds up and unfolds. The more it breeds mass production strips the image of its complexity. Today for most people nature has been replaced by the culture of congestion cities and mass media. in the past people looked at one thing at a time, things could not be reproduced, each object singular each act of seeing transitive not today today the object splits into a swarm of images of itself and the more famous and object is the cultural meaning it has. In a pre technological world, images of nature were the keys in art.
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