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Depicting sceneries like mountains, rivers, seas, valleys, trees and forest in paintings is Landscape art. Most of the landscape art includes sky in the view and weather is generally a factor in the composition. The word Landscape is derived from the Dutch word - landschap which means a sheaf or a patch of cultivated ground. The word landscape entered English language vocabulary around the late 17th century. Landscape paintings have been part of many cultures and landscape artists have enjoyed a place of pride in Europe, USA, China, Britain, Japan, India, France, and Holland.
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Landscape painting was established as a genre in Europe in the 15 century and expressed in religious subjects. By the time the oldest surviving ink paintings were executed, the Chinese art of pure landscape were established. History of landscape is therefore as old as the early civilization. The caves of Bhimbetka in India were painted as landscapes.
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John Ruskin and Sir Kenneth Clark put forward their opinion that the landscape painting was the "chief artistic creation of the nineteenth century" and in the following time people started to believe that the appreciation of natural beauty and the painting of landscape is a normal and enduring part of their spiritual activity.
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The Hudson River School in the United States is probably the best known native development in landscape art. Prominent during middle to late nineteenth century, painters created works of large sacle in an attempt to capture the feel and beauty of landscape that inspired them. The paintings of Thomas Cole, the acknowledged founder of the school share the philosphy of European landscape paintings in their essence of secular faith in the spiritual benefits.
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The other forms in Landscapes can be classified as seascapes, skycaps, moonscapes, riverscapes, cityscapes, aerial scapes etc. and painted in diverse media including oil, water color and pastel.
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It is a great idea to adorn your walls with the paintings of great landscape artists because their work have inherent quality of bringing the Nature within your home.
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