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2. Landscape painting - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Realism (arts) - Wikipedia

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   The accurate depiction of landscape in painting had also been developing in Early Netherlandish/Early Northern Renaissance and Italian Renaissance painting and was then brought to a very high level in 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painting, with very subtle techniques for depicting a range of weather conditions and degrees of natural light ...

4. The Sower (Millet) - Wikipedia

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   The painting is an unidealized depiction of the peasant's strength and hardworking lifestyle. The Sower was the first major painting that Millet made in Barbizon. In the same year he painted a nearly identical second version ( Yamanashi Prefectural Art Museum , Kofu ), which he exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1850 where it received much ...

5. A Birch Grove - Wikipedia

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   Painting A Birch Grove on a 1991 USSR postage stamp [60] Art historian Faina Maltseva noted that A Birch Grove is "an innovative work", one of the best examples of realistic landscapes of the 1870s. At the same time, in her opinion, "some features of his painting raise legitimate objections among viewers".

6. Hyperrealism (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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   [5] [6] [7] Graham Thompson wrote "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes , Denis Peterson , Audrey Flack , and Chuck Close often worked from ...

7. Niagara (Frederic Edwin Church) - Wikipedia

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   The final study for the painting. Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, 1856–57, oil on two pieces of paper, 29.2 × 90.5 cm. Olana State Historic Site [1]. Niagara is an oil painting produced in 1857 by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church.