Gerald Berghammer

Rolling Hills with Trees, Tuscany, black and white landscape limited edition

2021

Black and white fine art landscape photography. Italian Stone Pines on a hillside with a big cloud and shadows over the field, Tuscany. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Sign...

Cypress Tree Avenue Panorama Study 2, Tuscany - no. 21066 // Black and white fine art panorama landscape photography print. Path along a wonderful avenue of cypress trees during a st...

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...

Series: ETERNAL All available sizes and editions: 20" x 20" editions of 10 40" x 40" editions of 7 60" x 60" editions of 5 Archival Pigment Print on Fine Art Baryta paper Mounted a...