Development of Shere Village Forms in Painting: A Transformation from Realism to Minimalism.
ABSTRACT
One aspect of that has gained as a means of by artists over time is painting. The of the natural and man-made features on Shere village informed the researcher to explore the possibility of developing and expressing these forms in an artistic language.
Shere village landscape comprises many natural and man-made landforms such as hills, mountains, rocky mountains, valleys, gouges, shrubs, rocks, rivers, ponds, gullies, cliffs, man-made dumps, lakes, the atmosphere, and of course the sky. The researcher was influenced by this event in nature.
The motifs and forms on the Shere village landscape provided an artistic point of departure in painting. This study focuses on Minimalism as a means of expression. The exploration of land-forms generally has been undertaken by various artists in Nigeria and other parts of the world.
Minimalism defines the simplification of forms in artwork and design. The review examined written literature and works done by artists on minimalist paintings especially landscapes and how they were rendered by minimalist artists, such as Kandinsky, Matisse, Klee, and Buhari.
INTRODUCTION
One aspect of art that has gained importance as a means of expression by artists over time is landscape painting. Landscape painting is the representation of a panoramic view of the environment depicting such forms as; trees, mountains,
hills, rivers, sky, houses, cars, electricity poles and wires, human figures among others. Aspects of landscape painting can be traced to prehistoric representations on cave walls of Altamira as recognized by Gardner (1980).
Funk and Wagnall (1995) define landscape as “a stretch of country as seen from a single point.” They further stated that it is “a picture representing natural scenery.”
Similarly, landscape painting according to the Encyclopedia of World Arts, volume ix (1964), is “the type of pictorial representation in which natural scenery is the subject of or prevail over the action of figures, this also describes the rendering of natural scenery, painting forms, and color which makes up the design elements of the landscape.
Wikipedia informs us that “the word landscape is from the Dutch landscape, (the German cognate is Landschaft) meaning shaft, a patch of cultivated ground.”
The word is said to have entered the English vocabulary of the connoisseur in the late 11th century. Furthermore, Hornby (2000) sees the landscape as “everything you can see when you look across a large area of land, especially in the country.
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