Du socle au paysage : essai pour un nouveau regard sur les reliefs by Claire Portal

“…Landforms are considered here as landscapes patterns constituting the "geographical basement " for landscape painter, holding a cultural aspect emanating from a new field of research, cultural geomorphology. …”
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Le Paysage, le style, et la modernisation agricole : la vallée de l’Orne dans Bouvard et Pécuchet by Grant Wiedenfeld

“…This consideration of literary landscapes then leads to a comparison with nineteenth century French landscape painters in the final part of the article, where Charles Blanc’s comments on prosaic subjects and on style’s connection to the ideal animate our abstract comparison.…”
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La Vision artistique de la montagne : panorama, pli ou plongée ? by Marie-Madeleine Martinet

“…The undulations of uneven grounds provided motifs to represent folded spaces where diversity or surprise predominates over regularity; the reflections of these tormented shapes between glaciers became an object of scientific investigation, at the same time inspiring romantic landscape painters to find new shades of colour. Lastly, the vertical dimension, angled views and peaks, brought a new approach to perspective and the corresponding optical illusions.Mountains, a strange world, brought about inverted visual effects with the most irregular shapes prevailing over landscapes; and they were first studied in distant countries where their unusual appearance seemed less unexpected, before being discovered at home as an artistic subject…”
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