Design

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_art

I've been thinking a lot lately about the different ways people choose to depict and construct landscapes.  There always seems to be a certain element of design to it, considering exactly what each artist decided to depict, things are omitted and added at their discretion.  I stumbled across this interesting article that explains:
"In Europe, as John Ruskin realized,[1] and Sir Kenneth Clark brought to view, landscape painting was the "chief artistic creation of the nineteenth century", with the result that in the following period people were "apt to assume that the appreciation of natural beauty and the painting of landscape is a normal and enduring part of our spiritual activity"[2] In Clark's analysis, underlying European ways to convert the complexity of landscape to an idea were four fundamental approaches: by the acceptance of descriptive symbols, by curiosity about the facts of nature, by the creation of fantasy to allay deep-rooted fears of nature and by the belief in a Golden Age of harmony and order, which might be retrieved."

Clark's analysis is so similar to my thought process with my current series, and I think my work reflects his theories pretty accurately.  This may help me a bit in redefining my artist statement.