Screening Landscapes: Film between the Picturesque and the Painterly
Screening Landscapes: Film between the Picturesque and the Painterly

Summary/Abstract: Inherently connected to movement and to a sequential spatial experience in time, the picturesque has been considered as a precursor of the cinematic. In addition, the idea of the picturesque is closely connected to Heinrich Wölfflin’s notion of das Malerische or “the painterly,” which stands for a dynamic style of painting characterized by qualities of colour, stroke, and texture rather than of contour or line. Based on the keynote lecture delivered at the conference, The Picturesque: Visual Pleasure and Intermediality in-between Contemporary Cinema, Art and Digital Culture (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, 25–26 October, 2019),1 the essay disentangles the complex network of connections between image and landscape, painting and film, the picturesque and the painterly.

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