... showroom. Pummil, a great landscape artist, uses the historic western civilization movement to provide the subject material in his pieces for the series. In the 1985 eighteen by twenty-four oil painting, "Sound of the Bell," Pummil makes use of different color combinations. The subject matter is a hilly, mountainous landscape with a cowboy driving a herd of cattle. In the foreground Pummil focuses on ... a single cow with a yellow bell around its neck. The uses of color in this painting are cool and complimentary. Much of the landscape are various shades of blues and greens to depict th...

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Cezanne - beyond Impressionism. Another artist who drew his inspiration from outdoors was Cezanne, who also had a distinct style of painting. To move away from the style of the broken colour of the impressionists, Cezanne devised a system of modulating the colours from a volume of cool to warm or light to dark. ... . This technique, for example, can be seen in Cezanne's Still Life with Apples, a Bottle and a Milk Pot. In this painting we are able to see how Cezanne literally escapes the use of encompassing lines. The artist loses the edges in this painting, producing an image that passes into...

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