Landscape Painting Art Contest: Global Watercolor Showcase
The art of representing nature is the oldest artistic impulse in human history. It is a desire to make a place, to wish upon the simplicity and duality of life, to see out beyond a valley or a seaside or a forest—and know that something is so big and so unnamable that the right thing to do is to grab a brush. To say: I was here. I saw this. It did something to me, and this is what it did. Landscape painting art has outlasted every trend, every movement, every condemnation by critics saying it's too traditional, too comfortable, too much like something your grandmother could hang in the hallway. It remains vital because of its driving force; because the world keeps being beautiful and strange and overwhelming, and artists keep wanting to respond to it. The Landscape watercolor painting contest will be that response. And of course, it is open now to artists from around the globe. Landscape was there first, before portraiture, even before abstraction, as the conceptual art of the ...
