Gerald Berghammer

Lavender Field, House with Tree, France, black and white landscape, photography

Gerald Berghammer - Black and white landscape photography. Lavender field with a dirt path to a small house and a tall tree, under a sky with moving clouds. Archival pigment ink pri...

Black and white fine art landscape photography. Single tree with small hut at the beautiful vineyard in the Champagne in France. Archival pigment ink print...

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...

Handcrafted in the Photographers Darkroom Exhibition Quality Fibre Print Signed, dated and inscribed with title and stamped with photographers ink stamp reverso with the edition numb...