Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art 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 work. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather is often an element of the composition. Detailed landscapes a...
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Exhibitions created about this subject:
- Turner to Monet: The triumph of landscape ,
- Earl Cunningham's America ,
- Oh ChiGyun: Defining Landscape ,
- Nature as Artifice: Dutch Landscape in Contemporary Photography ,
- Aelbert Cuyp ,
- John Twachtman: Connecticut Landscapes ,
- The Discovery of Landscape: Masterpieces of Netherlandish Art of the 16th and 17th Centuries ,
- Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age ,
- Asher B. Durand (1796-1886), Dean of American Landscape