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Spring Fresco, Minoan painting from Akrotiri, 1600–1500 BCE Zhan Ziqian, Strolling About in Spring, a very early Chinese landscape, c. 600. The earliest forms of art around the world depict little that could really be called landscape, although ground-lines and sometimes indications of mountains, trees or other natural features are included.
There were also figures such as early Tang-era painter Zhan Ziqian, who painted superb landscape paintings that were well ahead of his day in portrayal of realism. However, landscape art did not reach greater level of maturity and realism in general until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (907–960 AD).
John Constable RA (/ ˈ k ʌ n s t ə b əl, ˈ k ɒ n-/; [1] 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting [2] with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of ...
Thomas Cole (1801–1848), The Oxbow, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (1836), Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism.
Self-taught, Cole began painting portraits in 1822. In the ensuing years, he shifted his focus to landscapes. [6] One of Cole's first landscapes, Lake with Dead Trees (1825), was among those that first popularized his works in an 1825 exhibition. [7]
The theory of 'En plein air' painting is credited to Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1750–1819), first expounded in a treatise entitled Reflections and Advice to a Student on Painting, Particularly on Landscape (1800), [2] where he developed the concept of landscape portraiture by which the artist paints directly onto canvas in situ within the ...
Chinese landscape painting timeline. Shan shui painting first began to develop in the 5th century, [1] in the Liu Song dynasty. [2] It was later characterized by a group of landscape painters such as Zhang Zeduan, [3] most of them already famous, who produced large-scale landscape paintings. These landscape paintings usually centered on mountains.
Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. [1] [2] Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings.