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  Landscape - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Landscape art is the depiction of a landscape in a painting, photograph or other work of art.
Landscape gardening is the practice of designing large scale estate gardens, and is usually applied to the 18th and 19th centuries, and seen as a precursor to landscape architecture.
Landscape ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology that investigates the ecological causes and consequences of spatial pattern, process and change in landscapes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Landscape   (308 words)

  
 Landscape art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers and forests.
Early in the 15th century landscape painting was established as an art genre in Europe, as a setting for human activity, often a religious subject, such as the themes of the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, the Journey of the Magi, or Saint Jerome in the Desert.
The Chinese tradition of "pure" landscape, in which the minute human figure simply gives scale and invites the viewer to participate in the experience, was well established by the time the oldest surviving ink paintings were executed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Landscape_painting   (277 words)

  
 NGA: Themes in American Art: Landscape
The earliest American landscape paintings were topographic illustrations of farms, cities, and landmarks that were generally painted for local residents or for Europeans interested in the New World.
In the colonial era, landscape views were found primarily in the backgrounds of portraits, usually to provide additional information about the sitter.
Landscape painting came to dominate American art in the 1820s, when artists began to equate the country's unspoiled wilderness with the new nation's seemingly limitless potential.
www.nga.gov /education/american/landscape.htm   (809 words)

  
 Garden and Forest and Landscape Art - Garden and Forest
Landscape architecture was not limited to the "planting of flower-beds and of ornamental shrubs," the Garden and Forest editors asserted in 1897, but was a "broad and catholic art.
The landscape gardener (her preferred term) "takes from nature not only his models but his materials and his methods." This "partnership with Nature" might seem to limit the artist’s opportunity for self expression, a necessary quality of true art.
Landscape art was necessary in all these designs because without it they could never achieve the unity inherent in great artistic compositions.
www.loc.gov /preserv/prd/gardfor/essays/carr.html   (1637 words)

  
 Landscape Art: Your source for landscapes.
Art prints from original oil paintings of angels and landscapes by Marissa Garcia, a Louisville Kentucky artist, colorful and impressionistic art.
Landscape and farm paintings of and around Pendleton County West Virginia by WV artist and writer Dianna Simms.
Mainly of landscapes in the Himalaya, Yemen, Ireland and Brittany.
www.artpromote.com /landscape.shtml   (473 words)

  
 Land Forum - Landscape Architecture, Garden Design, & Environmental Planning
Thus critical practices of art and cultural production today are more concerned with deriving new forms of expression and meaning through tactics of de-objectification and the development of complex, dynamic ordering systems than through a mere pictorial reframing of things.
After all, Walker's landscape architecture is predicated upon the frame, the tabula rasa (or the absence of context), and absolute control over every detail.
Her transformations do not cause you to question whether you are looking at art or a bicycle wheel; they cause you to confront the quality and reality of our common visual environment.
www.spacemakerpress.com /lffall98/lfpage04.htm   (2405 words)

  
 Flower & Garden Magazine: Wildlife and Landscape Art - garden art - Brief Article
Landscaping to fit your individual creative sense and climate is a great source of pleasure for many.
Not only does the art provide a focal point for your yard, but it becomes the local point of interest for many of the birds and animals who visit your garden as well.
Landscape items are as varied as the people who manufacture and buy them.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1082/is_2_45/ai_60021665   (932 words)

  
 MODERN & ABSTRACT : Landscape Art Print   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Many of the pictures we are able to reproduce have been collected over the years from talented and previously unpublished artists whose work we are delighted to be able to bring to a worldwide audience.
All FitzGerald Art Prints are reproduced direct from scans of the original works, giving superb definition and lively colours.
Each art print is produced to order on light-fast, archive quality paper - either textured or semi-gloss as appropriate to the subject.
www.fitzgeraldartprints.com /artprints/0/2   (176 words)

  
 LANDSCAPE PAINTING,The western art of Texas by Hugh Campbell
There are those who paint the passing of a moment in time, a mood, a condition, or in other words, a main singular effect on form.
These focal points may be a sharp edge, a bright color, a different object, a different temperature of color, an unusual size or shape of form, a rough texture or whatever.
The reason for this explanation is that I am basically a portrait painter, but had been perplexed for many years of having trials painting landscapes with many focal points of interest and didn't realize my problem.
www.hughcampbellwesternart.com /landscapes.htm   (378 words)

  
 Landscape Art Painting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Technique for these landscape art painting prints include washes enhanced with watercolor pencils for definition and perspective.
Landscape art paintings are not only beautiful, but landscape art paintings use bold and attractive colors making them a beautiful addition to any home.
If you have any questions about any of our landscape art paintings or landscape art paintings in general, please give us a call, we will be glad to help.
www.mwosheehan.com /landscapeartpainting.html   (244 words)

  
 Home Page
Through an ongoing programme of seminars, visits, conferences and meetings it helps to broaden the context in which we understand art and landscape and continues to inspire practitioners of all kinds and break professional boundaries.
As a network one of its founding aims is to encourage collaboration and cross-fertilisation, both in theory and practice.
is a not for profit company, wholly owned by the Landscape and Arts Network Ltd, incorporated in September 2003 to allow its Directors to further the aims and objectives of the Charity through commercial opportunities.
www.landartnet.org   (294 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Landscape and Western Art (Oxford History of Art S.): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This book debates the concept of landscape and explores particular periods and national traditions over the past 500 years of Western Landscape Art in painting, photography, garden design, Land Art, and other forms of expression.
It aims to stimulate a rethinking of assumptions about landscape and art; it is partly a stock-taking, in reviewing and discussing recent theorization about landscape, and it highlights the extent to which landscape aesthetics involve a wide range of non
Using a thematic structure many issues are examined, for instance: landscape as a cultural construct; the relationship between landscape as accessory or backdrop and landscape as the chief subject; landscape as constituted by various practices of framing; the sublime and ideas of indeterminacy; landscape art as picturesque or as exploration of living processes.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0192842331   (589 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: Landscape Art
The Art League is one of the Greater Washington, DC area's largest arts organization (and one of the largest in the world), with several thousand artist members.
Richard Crozier, from the McIntire Dept. of Art at the University of Virginia.
Landscape photography, for some reason, has escaped the total aversion shown by curators and critics to other forms of landscape art, and in fact, many of today's famous Teutonic surnamed photographers, with their gigantic, and mostly boring photographs adorning empty museums, could be categorized as landscape photographers.
blogcritics.org /archives/2004/08/25/113120.php   (664 words)

  
 Grant McSherry NZ Landscape Art Prints
All nzoncanvas.com landscape art prints are images of New Zealand, as seen and painted by Grant McSherry, a Kiwi artist who is passionate about his country.
All nzoncanvas.com landscape art prints are limited edition and each art print is hand numbered and signed by the artist, Grant McSherry.
As with the art prints on paper, Giclee prints are delivered to you in a sturdy cardboard cylinder to keep freight to a minimum while ensuring that your print arrives in top condition.
www.nzoncanvas.com /prints.html   (721 words)

  
 online art gallery fine art prints Scottish landscape paintings
Original paintings, prints and even a session at John's art classes and art holidays workshops make excellent luxury gifts to a special friend or relative with an interest in the arts.
The first art holiday workshop begins in mid February, and the whole programme can be seen on this link to art holidays.
Art class and art workshop students often paint around the studio garden in summer, or whenever weather is suitable.
www.johnstoa.co.uk   (866 words)

  
 Landscape Art Landscape Art companies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Landscape art can be a painting or a photograph of a landscape.
The most affordable way to display landscape art is usually by purchasing a landscape art poster.
The Landscape art poster can be framed or plaque mounted to give it a more finished look on your wall.
www.find-information-on.com /landscape-art.php   (131 words)

  
 Landscape Painting Art Workshops In Tuscany, Italy
Etruscan Places is focused on the art of open air or plein air or outdoor landscape painting.
We work outside during the art workshops, on location, under the Tuscan sun or clouds, and have all the equipment necessary for the task.
Our instructors at the art workshop are artists and landscape painters, who possess a depth of experience, education, and knowledge of art history and art making.
www.etruscan-places.com   (503 words)

  
 Landscape painting,The Western Art of Texas,by Hugh Campbell
Though you will see Texas Landscapes and cowboy art of the west, paintings of the holy land are featured also resulting from past trips to the Middle East.
BRONZES of western art, pastel and oil paintings of ranch life, a landscape or two, and farm livestock with some unique paintings and prints (lithographs) of the Middle-east are herein included.
Or you could be searching for that piece of art that would look grand in your home, office or weekend retreat.
www.hughcampbellwesternart.com   (412 words)

  
 Earth - Contemporary landscape art
My aim in landscape art has always been to emphasis the major elements of land, water, sunlight and sky, and to explore the interaction between them.
It is a major element in any landscape, and in a landscape painting, whether it’s an expanse of sea from a clifftop or the dark depths of a millpond,
Mountains have to be the most dominant feature in the landscape and in landscape art they appear with iconic status again and again.
www.kenbushe.co.uk /html/earth_-_contemporary_landscape.html   (389 words)

  
 landscape art, classical art
You've come to the right place if you're interested in framed art, framed artwork, art prints, landscape paintings, wall paintings, Monet paintings, Van Gogh paintings, classical, contemporary art and much more.
Whether your selection is for the living room or office, the art you choose and how it’s framed says a lot about you and your good taste, to both your friends and business associates.
Our art experts select the finest prints from the world’s greatest artists then create a series of exquisite framing designs to maximize the value and enhance the beauty of each piece.
www.choiceart.com /page.asp?id=1   (665 words)

  
 Art Gifts Interior Design Home Garden Landscape Art Garden Decor from the World Religions and World of Creation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Fine art, religious art is a unique gift from all the world religions and cultures.
The beauty of a serene Buddha, a religious symbol of Hinduism, the art of Christianity, the sanctity of Judaism, the religious art of Islam, the majesty of Baha'i persian and arabic calligraphy.
When we see in our minds eye a landscape for our home garden or a unique gift idea for a loved one do we envision an english garden, a japanese garden, a zen garden, a garden statue, a garden fountain, Roman art, renaissance art, art of antiquity or perhaps art of medieval times?
www.artsacred.com   (663 words)

  
 National Museum of Wildlife Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This is to say, landforms are the central subject for both geography and landscape art, and investigation into either discipline reveals more about the nature of the other and of nature itself.
Explores the tradition and significance of landscape painting as an interpretation of the landscape.
Students approach the how's and why's of landscape painting with an introduction to the laws of perspective.
www.wildlifeart.org /Education/Landforms/Landforms.cfm   (221 words)

  
 Full Editorial from Current Issue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
They all came of age in the 1960s and ’70s, a time when political and social rebellion in the larger world was matched by noisy chafing against the constraints of museums and galleries in the smaller cosmos of the art world.
Their example taught younger artists that it was possible to work in far-flung outposts, at a distance from the commercial end of art making.
What these artists have taken from the grand masters of Earth Art is a delight in natural materials and the example of working out of doors, far from the confines of walled interior spaces.
www.artnewsonline.com /currentarticle.cfm?type=feature&art_id=1540   (1736 words)

  
 Landscape Paintings & Realistic Art of William Hagerman
Welcome to the oil painting landscape art of William Hagerman.
Paintings include realistic art of the American west and southwest landscape and fine art views of the Texas hill country, bluebonnet paintings and other realistic paintings of the rural countryside.
A variety of subjects can be found, such as seascapes in oil, western art in pastel, oil and bronze, and even paintings with a European flair.
www.hagermanart.com   (269 words)

  
 Worcester Art Museum - Landscape
His association with haiku poets during his years in Nagoya (1795-1823) inspired an interest in and admiration for the Nanga painter Yosa Buson (q.v.).
After studying Buson's mature landscapes, Kinkoku's early painting style- based on the more naturalistic Maruyama-Shijo school- was transformed.
The spontaneity and individualism implicit in Nanga ideals are evident in this "Chinese" landscape of towering mountain peaks and huts around a lake.
www.worcesterart.org /Collection/Japanese/1986.2.html   (140 words)

  
 Fine art paintings landscape
Six men are about to stand trial for one of art's most shocking thefts.
Online art gallery and fine art prints of landscape paintings, figurative paintings, flower images, snow scenes and romantic art by scottish artist John Stoa.
Online Fine art gallery of original oil paintings for sale including a variability of themes like landscape paintings, abstract paintings, still life, nude, religious icons, figurative, flower paintings, impressionism.
www.postersprintsphotos.com /fineart/Fine-art-paintings-landscape.htm   (281 words)

  
 Art by Rob Maxwell-Landscape & Seascape Oil Paintings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
I create original seascape & landscape oil paintings on canvas.
In addition to landscape & seascape paintings, I also paint portraits of the special people or pets in your life from photographs.
To let you know a little about me, I was in a car accident and was disabled.
home.earthlink.net /~rdmax/home.html   (234 words)

  
 North American Landscapes - Depicting the North American Landscape Through Art
From the land we derive not only our basic food and shelter, but also a sense of who we are as individuals, communities and nations.
The landscape art in this exhibition reflects the natural environment but also our history, our industries, our cultures and our belief systems.
The Canadian Heritage Information Network, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, and their respective governments are proud to present this trilateral virtual exhibition celebrating the landscape of North America.
www.virtualmuseum.ca /Exhibitions/Landscapes/home-e.html   (179 words)

  
 Gardens
in landscape design of gardens and roof terraces,
Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens (AAG), managed by the Smithsonian's Horticulture Services Division, offers landscape designers, historians, preservationists, and garden enthusiasts access to a collection of approximately 60,000 photographic images and records that document historic and contemporary gardens throughout the United States.
A juried art exhibition being developed by artists to communicate with one another and allow themselves to exhibit and share their work with the worldwide community on the internet.
www.zeroland.co.nz /garden_art.html   (244 words)

  
 Architecure Books, Art Books, Design Books / Booklounge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This publication recognises recent developments by combining the technical sphere with an artistic perspective, centred on the question of the role of natural and artificial light in the perception of a variety of (urban) landscapes.
In a volume of impressive detail and opulent photography the British landscape architect and art historian Penelope Hill has portrayed the developments in contemporary European garden art.
For years, Andreas Züst, the late photographer, meteorologist, publisher, collector, and patron of the arts, took photographs of roundabouts in Europe, America, and Asia.
www.booklounge.com   (740 words)

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