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By the end of the 14th century, monochrome landscape paintings (sansuiga) became the preferred genre for Zen painters, evolving to a unique Japanese style from the Chinese origin. Shūbun , who created Reading in a Bamboo Grove (1446), and his student Sesshū , author of Landscape of the Four Seasons , are the most well known priest-painters of ...
Landscape with the Burial of St Serapia; Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (de Momper) Landscape with the Finding of Moses; Landscape with the Good Samaritan; Landscape with the Port of Santa Marinella; Landscape with the Temptation of Christ; Landscape with the Temptation of St Anthony (Lorrain) Landscape with the Temptation of St Anthony (Savery)
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 ...
The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from antiquity until the present time. [1] Until the mid-19th century it was primarily concerned with representational and traditional modes of production, after which time more modern, abstract and conceptual forms gained favor.
Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park, sacred landscape of the aboriginal Australian, classified as "cultural landscape" by Unesco. The World Heritage Committee's adoption and use of the concept of 'cultural landscapes' has seen multiple specialists around the world, and many nations identifying 'cultural landscapes', assessing 'cultural landscapes', heritage listing 'cultural landscapes ...
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]
Panoramic paintings are massive artworks that reveal a wide, all-encompassing view of a particular subject, often a landscape, military battle, or historical event. They became especially popular in the 19th century in Europe and the United States , inciting opposition from some writers of Romantic poetry .
Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson from atop Rozel Point, Utah, in mid-April 2005 Time Landscape by Alan Sonfist, at LaGuardia and Houston Streets in Manhattan, 1965-present. Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, [1] largely associated with Great Britain and the United States [2] [3] [4] but that also ...