Those philosophers, the Phenomenologists, began with the premise that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. No two individuals truly experience the very same scene. This is true even where some places, whole regions, are known for a distinct character, a 'personality,' with discernable moods. The philosophers could only talk about the experience. Travellers observed it.
Artists summon what is, quite literally, their viewpoint.
And although each viewer brings his own perceptual luggage to a landscape, an artist, in love with his creation, offers opportunity to see through another's sensorium et persona . These are paintings which focus on the artists' experience of place, rather than grandstand the experience of being artists. The content, through the artists' eyes, conveys distinct identities. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space James Winn's eight acrylics on paper masterfully portray the atmospheric temperaments and cyclic states of being of the American Midwest. Try as one might, his landscapes cannot be fit into Eastern seaboard or Western locale, nor anything of Europe.