What Constitutes Good Landscape Painting? | Boris Koller & Jan-Ove Tuv

Should you paint landscapes from imagination or climb the highest mountains to observe nature from a birds eye perspective? Boris Koller and Jan-Ove Tuv sit down to talk about their experience, how and where the youngsters go wrong, and the quality of painters like Vermeer, Lars Hertervig, and John Constable. Chapters from this episode: 00:03 Symmetry in painting is death 02:25 Paint what you know 06:21 Why not to use mirrors when you paint 14:28 Echoing or repeating certain elements 16:13 Inventing landscapes 19:50 Structure before rhythm and imbalance 22:22 Horizons are the main problem 24:13 Structure before emotion 28:55 Vermeer: the best landscape composer 30:44 Hertervig's "Borg Island": Dramatize and bind together 38:12 Painting from memory, a photograph, or the motif itself? 43:10 Hertervig unifies sky and earth and "flattens" the image 50:26 No sketches beforehand, like Caravaggio 53:08 Place important elements in the dark! 53:48 Animating nature 55:55 How to paint sunsets This episode was filmed and edited by Bork Nerdrum. The centerpiece was a 19th century reproduction of G. F. Watts' Hope. SHOUTOUT to our TOP SPONSORS! Fergus Ryan Shaun Roberts Matthias Proy Eivind Josten Børge Moe Dean Anthony Alastair Blain Anders Berge Christensen Erik Lasky Iver Ukkestad Jack Entz Warner Jared Fountain Jon Harald Aspheim Marion Bu-Pedersen Maurice Robbins Misty DeLaine Richard Barrett Stacey Evangelista Trym Jordahl Yngve Hellan Would you like to get premium access? Become a patron: https://patreon.com/caveofapelles/ Subscribe to our newsletter. It is the only way to make sure that you receive content from us on a regular basis: https://bit.ly/2L8qCNn Check out our other channels: https://www.youtube.com/c/SchoolofApelles https://www.youtube.com/c/CultureWarsNow Podcast available on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Spotify: https://soundcloud.com/caveofapelles https://spoti.fi/2AVDkcT https://apple.co/2QAcXD6 Visit our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/caveofapelles Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/CaveOfApelles For inquiries — talk@caveofapelles.com