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Landscape with scene from the Odyssey, Rome, c. 60–40 BCE. 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 ...
A line drawing is the most direct means of expression. This type of drawing without shading or lightness, is usually the first to be attempted by an artist.It may be somewhat limited in effect, yet it conveys dimension, movement, structure and mood; it can also suggest texture to some extent.
In the visual arts a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area. Seascape: A photograph, painting, or other work of art which depicts the sea, in other words an example of marine art.
Norman Cornish was born in 1919 in Spennymoor, (later to house the Spennymoor Settlement) in County Durham in North East England. [1] He started work as a miner in 1933, at the age of 14, [2] and continued to work as a miner after his painting career was established, until he retired to become a full-time artist in 1966.
Line art emphasizes form and drawings, of several (few) constant widths (as in technical illustrations), or of freely varying widths (as in brush work or engraving). Line art may tend towards realism (as in much of Gustave Doré 's work), or it may be a caricature , cartoon , ideograph , or glyph .
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Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (c. 1485) Accademia, Venice. Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface. The instruments used to make a drawing are pencils, crayons, pens with inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more modern times, computer styluses with graphics tablets or gamepads in VR drawing software.
Green Wheat Field with Cypress (French: Champ de blé vert avec cyprès) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Dutch Post-Impressionist Vincent van Gogh.It is held by the National Gallery Prague, displayed at the Trade Fair Palace (Veletržní palác) in the district of Holešovice, where the painting is known as Zelené obilí ("Green wheat").