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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Alpine scenes were highly popular in the nineteenth century, particularly in the aftermath of the Romantic Movement when artists sought to depict the grandeur of sublime nature. They faced the challenge of expressing the enormity of space and the insignificance of man within the confines of their small canvas. Josef Thoma achieves this through his vertiginous viewpoint, looking down onto a mountain path and into the abyss of the valley below. The diagonal composition dividing the precipitous foreground from the distant peaks beyond accentuates the dramatic effect. A small figure walking gives scale to the vastness of the scene. | Subjects: | landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Thoma, Josef (Austrian artist, 1828-1899) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8502... | Go to resource |
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