Modern art has taught ecologists to pay close attention to the surround. Ultimately, painters and ecologists must decide what is foreground and what is background. Landscape ecologists more often trick their own minds. They watch a hedgerow when they should be watching the surrounding field or their eyes are on the field when the action is within the hedgerow. But the lessons run deeper.
Recent critics have a tendency to dismiss harmony, to reduce it to an arbitrary cultural prejudice.
The melding of art and landscape languages has within it the seeds of a new sensibility of harmony. This biocentric sense of landscape harmony owes gratitude, in part, to the modern and conceptualist painters. Tired of pastoral scenes of the cow, the beech tree, and the setting sun, they offer us delight in connectivity, in the composition of elements in space and their configurations, and intuitive senses of color and touch. For complete contact information, visit our contact page .