Landscape Painting in Evaluation of Changes in Landscape

Abstract

One of common methods of determining landscape change usually is to compare maps and photographic images of the same places in different time horizons. Landscape painting, which has a long and rich tradition in the Czech Republic, can be used similarly. Landscape-ecological interpretation of selected works by painters of the 19 th century -Julius Mařák, František Kaván and Antonín Slavíček was done in this paper. Some pictures of the Českomoravská vrchovina (Bohemian-Moravian highlands) by Josef Jambor from the mid-20 th century were used for detailed comparative analysis to the level of habitats. We compared 80 landscape paintings and found that most of the painted sceneries have changed for worse.

Coppice Woods and Pollard Trees in the Visual Arts

“…In addition to old maps, photographs, aerial and satellite photographs, landscape ecology can make use of artistic depictions of the landscape if they are sufficiently realistic (Lacina, 2009(Lacina, , 2011Lacina & Halas, 2015) at valuating changes in the landscape, land use and anthropogenic impacts. Although the landscape painting with dominant realistically depicted landscape elements including the vegetation fully developed as late as in the 19 th century, composed landscape sceneries with the vegetation or at least with some indications of trees appeared -mainly as complements to figural compositions-much earlier, from ancient times.…”

Localisation of the painter’s canvas: landscape paintings from the Iron Mountains (Czech Republic)

“…A triangle representing the field of view of each painting was created from the location of the painter and the limit points of the painting's view horizon. The sites of the selected paintings were also photographed and visited during the terrain research, as in the studies of Bos (2015) and Lacina and Halas (2015).…”

“…(2) as forms of expression of the relationship between humans and nature; or (3) as determinants of our perception and understanding of the environment. Various applications of such approaches can be found in the studies of Prince (1988), Rees (1982), Smout (1996), Ewald (2001), Nordstrom and Jackson (2001), Lacina and Halas (2015), Bainbridge (2017), Lavery (2017) and Ray (2017). However, the issues of scale and purpose are very important.…”

“…He photographed modern landscapes that had been depicted in classic works by Dutch painters. Searching for a location where a painter placed his/her canvas, with respect to the focal views and focal points of the painting, is complicated, laborious and time consuming (Lacina & Halas, 2015). However, the use of a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) within a Geographical Information System (GIS) provides a simulation of the visibility of terrain features from particular locations.…”

Vodní nádrže a jejich krajina ve výtvarném umění

“…Josef Jambor absolvoval Akademii v grafické speciálce Maxe Švabinského, Oldřich Blažíček u figuralisty Hanuše Schwaigera. Pro krajinně ekologickou interpretaci, včetně hodnocení změn vegetačního krytu a flory jakožto ukazatele způsobu a intenzity využití půdy, je tak k dispozici veliké množství děl z různých krajinných typů i časových horizontů [21][22][23][24][25].…”