Thinking Landscape in Art

Authors

  • Mateusz Salwa Department of Aesthetics, University of Warsaw

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26485/AI/2023/25/11

Keywords:

art, landscape, painting, phenomenology, Sztabiński

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyse contemporary landscape painting as a form of landscape art. The analyses will be illustrated by a discussion of Grzegorz Sztabiński's oeuvre. Landscape art is defined as art which in any medium and in any way questions both the concept of landscape and real landscapes. The author claims that contemporary landscape painting may be treated as a theory or philosophy of landscape expressed in the painterly medium. It makes the invisible visible, i.e., it shows how the world becomes meaningful to people and does this not by representing views of certain places, but by provoking questions on the essence of landscape.

Author Biography

Mateusz Salwa, Department of Aesthetics, University of Warsaw

Mateusz Salwa is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Warsaw University and the head of the Chair of Aesthetics. He graduated in art history and philosophy. His main fields of interest include gardening art and landscape aesthetics. He is also interested in everyday aesthetics and new forms of art. He has published two monographs: Landscape. An Aesthetic Phenomenon (2020, in Polish), Garden Aesthetics: Between Art and Ecology (2016, in Polish) and a number of articles devoted to the artistic status of gardens, aesthetics of their conservation, and landscape aesthetics and ethics in such journals as Aesthetic Investigations, Aisthesis, Contempora­ry Aesthetics, Estetika, Ethics in Progress, Popular Inquiry, Rivista di Estetica. He is a co-founder of the website http://studiakrajobrazowe.amu.edu.pl/en/home-en/ dedicated to landscape studies.

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Published

2023-12-13

Issue

Vol. 25 (2023): How do artists think?

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Articles

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