Thomas Cole verses Wang Jian

Landscapes are most common and amazing subject to an art. Many different landscapes are around our living places, and it is cost less to be subject of our artworks. Artist Tomas Cole and Wang Jian are artists who have picked the nature to subject for their artworks. Their artworks were based on their country background and express details of the nature well as ‘The Oxbow’ by Tomas and ‘White Clouds over the Xiao and Xiang’ by Wang. It may make the audience to visit these landscapes when seeing their artworks.

Artist Tomas and Wang have some similarities on their artworks. They didn't add any imaginary part on their drawings like flowers or tress form other landscapes or the animals that do not live in this landscape to make better looking. Additionally, their detail artworks show that they tried to give every detail on each natural subject as below. Each leafs, branches, and trunks of ‘The Oxbow’ and ‘White Clouds over the Xiao and Xiang’ represent their own beauty and characteristics.

Artist Thomas ‘The Oxbow’ represents a specific place in Massachusetts. This drawing mostly focus on bending trees on the mountain; it shows how the bending tree has different characteristics from normal trees with curved branch on strange angle and sharp wood pieces from the trunk. Additionally, he has been putting light and darkness clearly in his artwork like he painted darkness color hazily in further area and light colors clearly in the near area from his view. It helps us where he is working on his artwork. He also used sharp shapes and natural colors like green to express wild plants. We can just feel fresh and green by the view of his painting as we are in the mountain.

Unlike Artist Thomas’s ‘The Oxbow’, Artist Wang’s ‘White Clouds over the Xiao and Xiang’ is a macro view of the mountain and non-colorful. His painting is the view from the highness sky, can see the surface of the top of the mountains and some clouds around the mountains. Furthermore, he did not give clear light and darkness in his painting, so it is hard to discover both near and further views of his landscape. In addition, it is hard to feel fresh nature and left bleak mood of his painting of the dark color such as black.

Natural drawings are my favorite subjects for the art. Each landscape has its own detail. It is very interesting to figure out detail and express every detail on my drawings.