Artists' trees: labourious leisure

Abstract

The painting and drawing of complete trees, including all their branches and leaves, in a wholly realistic way is an unreachable goal. As an alternative, artists have opted for taking a part of the tree’s structure as their model, or choosing examples of small trees, with which they can work on the exact definition of each detail. This paper analyses the nature of the problem and some of the solutions found.

Keywords

• árboles
• pintura
• dibujo
• prerafaelismo