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	Landscape art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Traditionally, landscape art depicts the surface of the earth, but there are other sorts of landscapes, such as moonscapes, for example.
		The word landscape is from the Dutch, landschap (the German cognate is Landschaft) meaning a sheaf, a patch of cultivated ground.
		Early in the fifteenth century, landscape painting was established as a genre in Europe, as a setting for human activity, often expressed in 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Landscape_painting (591 words)

	Landscape - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Cultural landscapes are "combined works of nature and of man." They are illustrative of the evolution of human society and settlement over time, under the influence of the physical constraints and/or opportunities presented by their natural environment and of successive social, economic and cultural forces, both external and internal [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Landscape (487 words)

	landscape
		As noun, landscape is: 1) a picture, sketch, etching, photograph, map or other representation of inland scenery, as of prairie, woodland, mountains, etc.; 2) the branch of painting, photography, etc, dealing with such pictures; 3) a view, prospect or vista of scenery or tract of land with its distinguishing characteristics either natural and/or man made.
		In this case the landscape is the content of the work of art expressed through the medium of paint, charcoal, ink etc. Combined with the beholder/artist's body these materials create a channel (medium) through which the landscape moves from the real to the representational.
		Landscape representation (generally painting) is commonly considered to have begun in 17th century Europe becoming, arguably, the dominant genre of Europe's visual arts.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/mitchell/glossary2004/landscape.htm (1815 words)

	landscape painting - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		landscape painting portrayal of scenes found in the natural world; these scenes are treated as the subject of the work of art rather than as an element in another kind of painting.
		As a result landscape painting as an independent art was a late development in the West.
		These artists, among whom Pieter Bruegel the elder was most notable, were devoted to fantastic scenes painted according to established convention in tones of brown for the foreground, green for the middle ground, and blue for the background panorama.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-landscap-p.html (873 words)

	Mountain and Water: Korean Landscape Painting, 1400–1800 \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Landscape painting represents both a portrayal of nature itself and a codified illustration of the human view of nature and the world.
		Painted in 1447 at the behest of his patron, Prince Anp'yông, the handscroll depicts a dream, as elucidated by the prince in his colophon to the painting, wherein he was transported to the Peach Blossom Land, a utopian world described in a fable by the Chinese recluse poet Tao Qian (Tao Yuanming, 365–427).
		Landscape painting in the style of An Kyôn—featuring prominent mountains looming in the background over idyllic scenes of trees, small hills, and water (sometimes with evidence of human presence, such as boats or architecture)—flourished through the fifteenth, sixteenth, and even into the seventeenth century.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/mowa/hd_mowa.htm (1238 words)

	landscape painting
		Other significant landscape artists include J M W Turner, whose shimmering works anticipated Impressionism; and Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School, the first American school of landscape painting.
		Paintings were considered a luxury and only commissioned for events such as the commemoration of an important person; or to decorate churches and cathedrals, both as an act of worship and to instruct those of the faith who could not read; or later to display personal wealth and status.
		Landscape painting developed with the interest in their new surroundings of artists travelling to Italy.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0039887.html (642 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)

	California landscape painting - plein-aire landscape and seascape paintings.
		To her, the California landscape is at once beautiful and eerie, and she expresses this dichotomy with glowing colors and moody shadows.
		The landscape of Pasadena in a storm reminds one of El Greco¹s landscape painting ³View of Toledo.² The snow-capped mountains around Los Angeles have similarities to the landscapes painted by Swiss and German romanticists.
		The landscape of night lights has been called a queen¹s necklace and this is a theme in her paintings.
	www.love-art.com (492 words)

	ARTSEDGE: Landscape Painting with James Palmersheim
		Show the students an example of a landscape by artist, James Palmersheim—although this is a pastel and not a watercolor, it is a great example of background, middle ground, and foreground.
		The students will paint a landscape with a creek as the main focal point.
		Sketch a landscape with a creek that goes from the fold to the bottom of the paper.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/2180 (984 words)

	MICHAEL HODGKINS \| Fine Art Gallery \| Australian Landscape Painting
		This painting belongs to a private collector now but I do have a selection of other original Australian landscape oil paintings that are available to purchase.
		Landscape painting is a relatively new genre in the history of western fine art.
		Thankfully things have changed and painting the landscape for the sheer enjoyment of the aesthetics of nature, whether references to man are included or not, is an accepted and much loved pastime for thousands of landscape artists worldwide.
	www.michaelhodgkins.com (543 words)

	About Landscape Painting \| Abbeville Press
		The paintings are presented chronologically, beginning with the heritage from the ancient world and the precursors of landscape artists in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Giovanni Bellini, and Raphael.
		In the authoritative text, the author traces the history of landscape painting up to the present day but also focuses on individual paintings and the circumstances under which they were created.
		He is the author of The Invention of the Landscape, the co-author of several books, the author of numerous catalog essays, and a curator of a number of museum exhibitions.
	www.abbeville.com /Products/Product0789209020.htm (559 words)

	American Landscape Painting
		His painting, The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1872), is typical of the school's focus on the gigantic landscapes of the American west.
		Landscapes were also composed by artists working in other venues.
		Both painting and frame should be compatible with the surrounding walls, furniture and the presence of light.
	www.go-star.com /framer/landscape.htm (615 words)

	The Art of Chinese Landscape Painting
		Today, in particular, Chinese landscape painting exhibits the spirit of the past masters but not their forms.
		Painting must reflect the outstanding rhythm and characteristic of the object painted and only in this way can a painter breathe life and character into the thing he paints.
		He also said, "To paint mountains and cliffs, one must have its road, wood, temple partly hidden and partly shown." In this way, the distance is clearly shown and it has more depth.
	home.att.net /~cheung.helena/hsudan/2.html (622 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)

	ARTSEDGE: You Too Can Haiku
		Landscape Painting: Artists Who Love the Land from the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, introduces students to four artists (George Catlin, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, and Winslow Homer) who attempted to capture the the great size and splendor of the American landscape.
		Basic principles of landscape painting are introduced, as well as the history and geography of the western United States.
		Many of the types of landscapes one can see in the Japanese paintings viewed earlier are referred to in traditional haiku, such as in haiku by Basho (click on "3.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/2246 (1525 words)

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		The first one is the names of tool materials of Chinese painting (ink-wash painting), which just refers to the brush and the ink.
		The second one is it is the general name of traditional present skill of Chinese painting (using brush and ink).
		Paintings on silk, possessing linear effects, had appeared during the period of the Warring States (475-221BC) and by the late Western Han era (206BC-AD24), paintings in rich colors were being done, such as the murals discovered in Han tombs.
	www.lycos.com /info/chinese-landscape-painting.html (676 words)

	Grant Wood: Landscape Painting
		However, as Wood was painting the American Midwest in the darkest years of the Depression, it seems important to consider his hopeful and loving approach to a subject matter that was highly contentious at that time.
		However, the landscapes remain very still and give the impression of reverent silence; if there is movement in the painting, it seems very slow and regular--the act of plowing or planting.
		Wood was painting what he longed for, an agrarian paradise where the land took care of her own before the machine came to torment her; further, this was an America without urban centers and thus free of the social complexities of mass unemployment, crowded conditions, factories and industry.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA98/haven/wood/landscape.html (1330 words)

	Landscape Painting in Chinese Art \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		These gatherings were frequently commemorated in paintings that, rather than presenting a realistic depiction of an actual place, conveyed the shared cultural ideals of a reclusive world through a symbolic shorthand in which a villa might be represented by a humble thatched hut.
		Painting was no longer about the description of the visible world; it became a means of conveying the inner landscape of the artist's heart and mind.
		Viewing Chinese landscape paintings, it is clear that Chinese depictions of nature are seldom mere representations of the external world.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/clpg/hd_clpg.htm (832 words)

	Painting Tutorials and Resources for Artists
		Painting Tips -- William Scott Jennings helps beginning and intermediate artists by sharing his insights on: the stages of painting, how to decide how much foreground detail is needed, and painting on location.
		Painting Demonstration in Watermedia -- Mary Weinstein Backer combines watercolors and acrylics, using watercolor as an "under-painting".
		Paint by Number Fun -- SegPlay is a fun, free, and challenging interactive artistic experience which allows you to color in detailed patterns of photographs and well known art images, without lifting a paint brush or crayon.
	www.artshow.com /resources/painting.html (2460 words)

	American landscape painting Cosmopolis
		Americans were not interested in the landscape marked by man's presence but they regarded nature as a virgin territory, a landscape that had not been sullied by human kind, in which the hand of God, its creator, could be seen.
		The exaltation of this paradisiacal landscape, hence the exhibition title Exploring Eden, met the idea of Americans as the chosen people, a nation with a moral mission - the recent statements by Bush, Gore and Powell confirm that this idea is still well alive.
		The exhibition includes views of the landscape along the banks of the Hudson River were they settled in the last years, hence their name although they did not call themselves so.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo12/americanlandscape.htm (1063 words)

	Fundamentals Painting Course
		The objective of this course is to present a framework and process that will enable the student to compose, develop and complete a landscape painting within a 2 hour period.
		The didactic method advanced is based on the approach to paint that emerged in the Roman countryside, the “Campagna”, in the 18th century and theoretically codified in the writings of the French Neo-classical painter Pierre Henri Valenciennes in his “Elements of Perspective”.
		All painting sessions are held in the outdoors, rain or shine.
	landscapepainting.com /fundamentals.htm (418 words)

	landscape painting — Infoplease.com
		landscape painting: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Claude Lorrain was supreme master of this genre.
		landscape painting: Landscape Art in the East - Landscape Art in the East In China landscape art reached extraordinary perfection as early as the...
		landscape painting: The Renaissance and the Sixteenth Century - The Renaissance and the Sixteenth Century In Renaissance Italy the study of perspective gave rise...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0828773.html (168 words)

	Amazon.ca: Painting the Landscape in Pastel: Books: Albert Handell,Anita Louise West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Anita Louise West began painting at an early age and was awarded a scholarship to the Kansas City Art Institute in painting.
		In contrast, Painting the Landscape had 1 or 2 such demonstrations and only about a page of nitty gritty on technique (actually applying pastel to paper).
		Painting the landscape in pastels-Albert Handell, Jun 26 2001
	www.amazon.ca /Painting-Landscape-Pastel-Albert-Handell/dp/0823039129 (797 words)

	French Alps Landscape Painting Workshop (Watercolor, Oil, Acrylic) by Lake Annecy, France
		Landscape Painting students will relish the chance to paint the scenes that inspired Paul Cézanne.
		Landscape Painting offers morning classroom instruction that takes advantage of Talloires’ exceptional surroundings to allow participants to work both indoors and en plein air (outdoors), exploring a variety of techniques including watercolor, acrylic, and oil.
		Whether painting within its stone walls or outside in its exquisite gardens bordering Lake Annecy, you will be inspired by the magical light and natural beauty of your surroundings.
	ase.tufts.edu /frenchalps/landscapepainting.htm (582 words)

	Outdoor Painting :: History ::
		Prior to the 19th century, landscape painting was used as the basis for allegorical and narrative themes.
		However, their paintings were composed much like a set designer would create a backdrop for a theater production.
		It was not until the early 1800’s that artists rejected the contrived landscapes of their predecessors and turned to nature for their inspiration.
	www.outdoorpainting.com /history.html (553 words)

	Chinese Brush Painting Books Landscape
		General techniques for painting landscapes in the four seasons with artist Zhang Chung.
		A delightful approach to painting instruction, breaking down some landscape subjects into easy to emulate shapes that can be used to create delightfully simply compositions.
		A delightful approach to painting instruction, breaking down four different subject groups (Birds, Fruits and Vegetables, Insects, and Landscapes) into easy to emulate shapes that can be used to create delightfully simply compositions.
	www.orientalartsupply.com /products/books_landscape.cfm (1009 words)

	Handmade Landscape Quilts for sale : 3-d quilt art
		A 21 by 23 Landscape Quilt art Spirit of the American West IV captures the true spirit of the the southwest Colorado remote areas.
		Landscape Quilt "Penstemon on Saguaro I" This is a 13 by 18 Original Landscape Quilt.
		A typical Colorado Rocky Mountain landscape, this unique fabric painting purveys a sense of the wide-open spaces, big western sky, home for the bald eagle, and heritage of the land in wild horses.
	www.paintingswithfabric.com /quilts (1632 words)

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