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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. Category:Landscape paintings - Wikipedia

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    Capriccio (art) Cass (painting) The Castle of Muiden in Winter; Cemetery, New Mexico (Marsden Hartley) The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe; Château en Espagne; Le Chemin, Paysage à Meudon; Chestnut Trees and Farm at Jas de Bouffan (Cézanne, Moscow) Chestnut Trees and Farm at Jas de Bouffan (Cézanne, Pasadena) Chiayi Park (painting)

  4. List of wildlife artists - Wikipedia

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    This list of wildlife artists is a list for any notable wildlife artist, wildlife painter, wildlife photographer, other wildlife artist, society of wildlife artists, museum, or exhibition of wildlife art, worldwide.

  5. Niagara (Frederic Edwin Church) - Wikipedia

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    Nature in the Era of Manifest Destiny was prophecy, and Church as the "interpreter" of Niagara was therefore painting as American prophet. Niagara is the American's mythical Deluge which washes away the memory of an Old World so that man may live at home in a New World. The painting is an icon of psychic natural purgation and rebirth.

  6. Winter landscapes in Western art - Wikipedia

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    The depiction of winter landscapes in Western art begins in the 15th century, as does landscape painting in general. Wintry and snowy landscapes are very rarely seen in earlier European painting since most of the subjects were religious. Gold ground paintings had no painted backgrounds and other narrative scenes had highly stylized trees and ...

  7. Panoramic painting - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  8. Shan shui - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Still life - Wikipedia

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    Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado, Madrid. A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).