| Landscape Painting is a distinct genre of painting that | | | | spiritual elements. Various religious and mythological |
| captures nature in its natural form. The paintings are | | | | events were represented via nature. Though the |
| reflections of the skies, seas, rivers, sun, moon and | | | | spiritual tones were absent in the Reformation times |
| greeneries on the canvas. One of the earliest and | | | | the paintings became more uniform and realistic in this |
| traditional painting forms, landscape paintings touch the | | | | era. |
| heart of the modern art lovers with all their purity, | | | | The seventeenth and eighteenth century led to the |
| naturalness and aestheticism. | | | | flourish of the paintings with some master artists like |
| Visual documents of the panorama of nature the | | | | Watteau, Gainsborough and Thoams Girtin. The |
| paintings with their timeless appeal have grown over | | | | breathtaking creations reached their acme in the |
| the years as inspirations to the generations of artists. | | | | nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Various |
| Landscape paintings from India are famous for | | | | movements of arts like abstract expressionism, |
| representation of wilderness and unspoiled beauties of | | | | impressionism and surrealism influenced the painting |
| nature. | | | | and brought in some new styles and techniques. |
| The word landscape originates from the Dutch word | | | | Nature was observed scientifically and more |
| “landschap” denoting areas of arable lands. | | | | importance was given to its hostile aspects. In the |
| Depicting natural sceneries in a medley of lines, colors | | | | modern and postmodern landscapes nature is |
| and tones was the outcome of the natural inclinations | | | | synchronized with human psychologies and |
| of human beings to reflect what they mostly found | | | | complexities of life. The various facets of nature |
| around them. | | | | resemble the moods of human beings in manifolds. |
| The early civilizations with less industrialization and | | | | Landscape paintings have several classifications. The |
| urbanization presented nature in its complete bounties. | | | | skyscape paintings depict clouds, skies and weather |
| Artists and poets admired them in their creations. Life | | | | conditions. Moon is aesthetically represented in |
| was not at all complex and it was only nature and its | | | | moonscape paintings. The rivers and seas find visible |
| diverse facets that formed the central theme of the | | | | expression in seascapes and riverscapes. |
| paintings. | | | | The images of urban landscapes, industrialized cities, |
| Landscape painting in its antiquated form can be | | | | towns and streets are carved in cityscapes and |
| observed in the pastoral sceneries of the Roman | | | | hardscapes. The aerial landscapes offer an aerial view |
| times. The paintings gained prominence with the | | | | of the objects in the ground. Inscapes are visual |
| emergence of Renaissance Art. Nature was | | | | images of the psychoanalytical mind as a |
| romanticized and portrayed as philosophical and | | | | three-dimensional space. |