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History of Landscape Paintings

Landscape art refer to the painting which depicts natural scenery in pigments such as oil paints, acrylic and watercolor. In early paintings, there isn’t such an independent genre, and landscape only appears in some figure paintings in the form of background. So does Chinese landscape paintings.
Till the 16th century after Renaissance, the real landscapes painting history began. And as an independent painting technique appeared in the European painting circle, landscape art paintings obtained an enormous development.

In the 15th century, paintings of landscapes became an independent genre. German painter Albrecht Durer water color landscapes appeared as chorography.
There are idyllic ideal landscapes in Italy, and hero landscape of ancient mythical figure in France. British artist John Constable art in the 18th century is the turning point of history. Modern landscape oil painting in 19th century pay attention to depict the natural scenes such as mountains, seas, late autumn and morning mist which haven’t been depicted by predecessors. The French Barbizon School began to express the natural landscapes in the attitude of naturalism.
In the late nineteenth century, impressionism artists landscape paintings use the subtle coordination of light and shade and color to make oil canvas become an important category in painting. On the part of contemporary landscape painting history, Wu Guanzhong’s Chinese art is full of national sentiment. Thomas Kinkade American landscape painting bear a strong commercial sense.

Techniques of Paintings Landscape

No matter art in oil, acrylic, or watercolours, all of them need to use perspective, the knowledge of color and various processing techniques to show and strive to make the distinction in the far and near, false and true, change of light and color transition.
By category, paintings landscapes can be divided into: realistic, impressionism, abstract landscape painting, classical, modern, American, Russian, Dutch, Mediterranean, Thomas Kinkade, forest, mountains and water scenes, and idyllic drawing landscapes.

Chinese Landscape Painting

Chinese landscape paintings formed the unique style and aesthetic standard as well as a set of complete theoretical system in the long process of development. When Chinese artist landscape paintings are devoted to the integration between themselves and natural laws in the influence of monism and Tao, western landscapes painters are trying to complete their ideal transformation in the glory of humanistic ideas. Chinese painting of landscapes have specific national means of expression but with the similar origin of western oil landscape painting. In the process of development, they have different aesthetic thought and aesthetic taste form that of European and American landscape painting. For examples, Chinese art has their own characteristics in the form and technique of expression as well as the tool and material. More >>

Landscape Paintings Artists

The majority of landscape painters depict the outdoors natural scenery. When expressing architectures, they often depict their appearances.

Jan van Goyen (1596-1656）, is the best one in the first generation of landscape painting artists. He is good at depicting pictures of rivers, which truly reproduced the natural scenery in Dutch. The clouds occupied most space of his art landscape oil paintings, and the low horizon draws the audiences and the scenery at the river bank closer. Such pattern of composition became a common technique in Dutch landscape painting art.

In the golden age of Dutch art, the most outstanding representatives are Jacob van Ruisdael (1628-1682) and his student Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709). Both of the artists depict diverse subjects. They vividly convey the changing natural shapes, light and atmosphere and integrate their subjective feelings into the art landscape painting in colors not so rich.
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Additional Reading about Paintings of Landscape

Art landscape is a type of work in which natural scenery is the essential visual motif. Famous landscape paintings in Europe arouses the spectator’s feelings to a certain beauty because of the inclination to the value of human existence and the value of life, e. g. landscape in oil painting with cattle and sheep, cow shepherd. It follows the principle of depicting the real world, stressing an exact and scientific representation.

It has a preference for a way to describe the outside world or paint realistically because people hope to realize their grasp on the objective world in “formal harmoniousness” by landscape in art. It is different from traditional Chinese landscape paintings which takes the spectators as the subject and involves them into the landscape drawings and depends much more on the feelings and active thoughts of spectators to build up a beautiful realm for them.

Classical landscape painting artist were influenced by antiquity. The oils on canvas they represented were meant to illustrate the ideal landscapes. Because of this, the pictures are very contrived. The position of people, shepherd paintings with a tree, trees, forest, path, river, stream, hill, tree, waterfall, a rock, or anything else in watercolor landscape paintings for that matter were calculated. Through this calculation of space, the final effect is abstract landscape paintings that are the epitome of harmony and balance. Diagonal were used, but are much more subtle in the smooth way they direct space. The diagonals are not sweeping as we saw in Rubens, nor do you get the brooding sense of atmosphere as we see in the Dutch watercolour landscapes on oilpaintingfactory.com. Landscape oil painting captured a timeless mood. The figures while they still do participate in the pictures, are no longer equal like Rubens, they are, in fact, inferior to the immense landscape. Rustic cottage houses are replaced with classical buildings. People wear classical costume instead of peasant clothing.

Landscape painting artists do not show true rural life. They idealize the atmosphere by the use of unnatural light, and in essence, the result is a blissful landscape in which everything is in harmony, denying what actual life is like. Abstract landscape painting enforces correctness and propriety in their art. According to Tansey, "Restraint and moderation are the very essence of French Classic doctrine". Toperfect Art own many reliable painters of oil painting of landscape, acrylic landscapes art for sale, and watercolor.

Paintings of landscape play a significant role in American art. The earliest American landscapes were topographic illustrations. In the colonial era, landscape of oil painting views were found primarily in the backgrounds of portraits on oilpaintingfactory.com with classical scenes, usually to provide additional information about the sitter. Water color landscape came to dominate American art in the 1820s. Contemporary landscape painting was less a stage for theatrical effects.

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The landscape painters always painted the pictures form certain angles, for example they see the field from above, or from the ground. They used techniques well to create pictures that portray the great size and splendor of the European and American landscape painting in oil. The silent drawing of these painters still speak to us of the majesty of our land.

It was a small group of Englishmen, most notably John Constable and Joseph William Mallord Turner, who first produced finished oil paintings landscape direct from nature. In 1824, John Constable artwork, View on the Stour (1819) and The Hay Wain (1821) were exhibited at the prestigious Salon in Paris, winning Gold Medals.