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Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...
Landscape painting in Scotland; Landscape with a Castle; Landscape with a Church at Twilight; Landscape with a Cottage and Trees; Landscape with a Mountain Pass; Landscape with a Pig and a Horse; A Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Church; Landscape with a View of the Sea at Sunset; Landscape with a Windmill near a Town Moat; Landscape with ...
Self-portrait with his wife, Marie-Suzanne Giroust, painting Henrik Wilhelm Peill, at and by Alexander Roslin Aiding a Comrade , at and by Frederic Remington Cymon and Iphigenia , by Frederic Leighton
Shan shui painting is a kind of painting which goes against the common definition of what a painting is. Shan shui painting refutes color, light and shadow and personal brush work. Shan shui painting is not an open window for the viewer's eye, it is an object for the viewer's mind. Shan shui painting is more like a vehicle of philosophy. [6]
Painting Name Year Technique Dimensions (H×W) Current Location Niagara Falls (Horseshoe Falls) c. 1844: Oil on canvas: 111.4 × 119.1 cm: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636: 1846: Oil on canvas: 102.24 × 153.35 cm: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
The most famous of these works is A View of Mount Etna from Taormina which is a 78-by-120-inch (1,980 by 3,050 mm) oil on canvas. Cole also produced a highly detailed sketch View of Mount Etna which shows a panoramic view of the volcano with the crumbling walls of the ancient Greek theater of Taormina on the far right.
Luminism is a style of American landscape painting of the 1850s to 1870s, characterized by effects of light in a landscape, through the use of aerial perspective and the concealing of visible brushstrokes. Luminist landscapes emphasize tranquility, often depicting calm, reflective water and a soft, hazy sky.
Mainly the earlier members of the Hudson River School, around the 1850-60’s, displayed man as in unison with nature in their landscape paintings by often painting men on a very small scale compared to the vast landscape. Thomas Hill often brought this technique into his own paintings in for example in his painting, Yosemite Valley 1889.