Gerald Berghammer

Farmland, single tree, giant clouds - black and white - landscape photography

2014

Farmland Study 3, Austria - no. 11524 Single tree in cornfield in stormy weather, international winning photography, Austria. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition...

Lavender Field with lonely Tree Study 1, France - no. 21149 Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and number...

Field - Limited edition pigment print - Limited Editions of 15 Rural France, Burgundy, 2006 This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta ...

archival inkjet print on watercolor paper 10 x 13 inches unframed 2016 Photographed in Maine, this black and white archival pigment print by Betsy Weis captures a trees in a meadow. The serenity of the sky and grassy meadow in soft grays are contrasted by the leafy tress in the distance. This photograph is available unframed. The image measures 10 x 13 inches. Artist statement: Nature provides the perfect model of beauty, according to Plato and Socrates. In the classical period, something was considered beautiful because it existed in nature; art was secondary. In the 18th Century, the German philosopher Johann Joachim Winckelmann argued against the idea that art imitates life, believing that qualities superior to nature are found in art, specifically, ideal beauty, and “brain-born images”. Neoclassical thought represented that art need not serve any end other than its own existence. For me, beauty is an ideal, nature is real, and art comes from the brain. I take pictures in nature, finding shifting, disparate, and beautiful landscapes. I develop my pictures of trees...