Landscape Paintings prominently incorporates the scenes of mountains, sky, sea,
river and forest. Drawing of sky is almost
essential to landscape painting and weather is
the driving factor in such paintings. Roman
landscape frescoes painted in 1 st century
A.D.have been preserved at Pompeii and
Herculaneum.
Word landscape is derived from
a Dutch word ‘landschap' meaning sheaf, a patch
of cultivated ground. History of landscape is
thus as old as the early civilization. The caves
of Bhimbetka in India were painted as
landscapes. Man started with landscape paintings
because of the natural tendency to reflect what
one sees. This is why landscapes are the
reflections mainly of the natural things like
seas, mountain, sky, river, forests etc.
Landscapes can be further
classified in to many other forms like
seascapes, skycaps, moonscapes, riverscapes,
cityscapes, aerial scapes etc. Landscape art has
developed to great levels and still it's
undergoing through many improvements and
experiments. landscape painting is done in
diverse media and thus landscape oil painting,
landscape watercolor painting, Pastel landscape
painting have become hobby object of innumerable
people.
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