Comparison Of Landscapes

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For the assignment I selected two landscape drawings. One is of the outskirts of the city of Padua and the other is a drawing from Donato Creti. There are many different ways to draw landscapes, as each of the two drawings show.
In the drawing of the city Padua, the artist, gives us the perception that the drawing is taken place out side the city. The artist uses the city as a horizon line across the center of the drawing. In the drawing the artist uses a lot of diagonal lines to create a downward feeling, almost like your standing at a top of a hill and looking down on the city. To create make something dark or create a shadow of something the artist has a tendency to use thicker lines that are closer together to create the image. While the artist still has areas that he uses solid black, it is not a common theme throughout the drawing. Looking at the drawing you get the feel that the sun is behind the artist because darker lines in the center of the drawing, almost in the spot of where a shadow would be created by the building. There is not an even balance between the black and whites. It is too much contrast. I think it was done this way for the sole purpose of creating and defining the shadows of the drawing. Possibly giving us a clue as to the time of day that the artist drew this picture. What intrigues me most about this drawing, and I will go over this again with the next drawing, is why this spot? Why not higher on the hill, if it is indeed a hill. Why not 200 feet to the right, or left, or why not in a completely different location?
My next drawing is, Donato Creti’s, youth and nymph. Unlike the last drawing where the artist used diagonal lines to create a downward feeling, this time Creti stays away from straight lines as much as possible and uses location to create and upward feeling. In the drawing there is what appears to be two mountains towards the top of the drawing. There is one that is closer, yet smaller then the...