SOURCE: Fremantle, Anne. Review of Landscape Paintings, by Kenneth Clark. Commonweal 52 (16 June 1950): 251-52.

In the following review, Fremantle artfully chronicles Clark's Landscape Painting through the centuries.

The beauty of God, Aquinas states, is the cause of the being of all that is. This is a theme Sir Kenneth Clark, long Director of the National Gallery in London, clearly illustrates and amplifies.

“Facts become art through love, which unifies them, and lifts them to a higher plane of reality, and, in landscape, this all-embracing love is expressed by light,” Sir Kenneth writes. His study of man's relation to nature, reflected through the centuries in the history of landscape painting, considers in detail four ways in which man has attempted to convert the complexity of natural appearances into the unity of an idea. He shows both the simultaneity, and the sequence of these four modes, from neo-classical times to our...