![]() ![]() During the 20th century, landscape art had been redefining itself by numerous movements. But, let’s go back to contemporary art now. It is the Albert Altdorfer’s Landscape with Footbridge, from somewhere in between 15, which is considered to be the first true landscape in the Western history of art. And only then was the first real landscape painting made. ![]() Only then did nature become a true inspiration for painters. But it wasn’t until the Renaissance era that artists started considering landscapes as a subject matter of their art. If we look only through the lens of the Western world, we would acknowledge that scenery paintings originally came from the ancient Greeks and Romans, and that would be a well-known fact. In fact, it became so gloriously popular at the beginning of the 9th century that the whole following period was called The Great Age of Chinese Landscape. First impressions of nature were actually depicted in Chinese art where landscape clearly stated the connection with an environment. Although there was a long-lasting belief that Leonardo da Vinci drafted the first landscape painting ever made in 1473, that is not quite true. When it comes to the origins of a landscape painting, that pushes us way back in the fourth century and places us somewhere in China. By adding vivid colors or by simply playing with shapes and curves where you wouldn’t actually expect it, contemporary artists are making landscape paintings far more interesting than they originally used to be. They truly know how to create miracle images with what they have in front of them. When you consider it that way, every piece of nature deserves to find itself in a painting made by some of the masterminds in the landscape paintings. Landscape paintings don’t require much of an imagination, because for the artist it only takes to go out of their home or their studio and there it is – inspiration is all around them, whether they live in the city and they want to capture an urban atmosphere in their sketch or they step outside their living space and get out there looking for some untouched nature to transfer it to canvas in all its glory. Inspired by the beauty of nature and their surroundings, painters usually paint exactly what they see. Landscape paintings are depicting reality in its purest form. ![]()
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