landscape painter
Outdoor vista creator
A landscape painter is an artist who paints outdoor scenery—mountains, valleys, forests, coastlines, fields.
The term distinguishes from portrait painters, still life painters, and other specialists.
Turner was England's greatest landscape painter.
The practice emerged as a distinct genre in Western art during the Renaissance.
- Barbizon SchoolRural French landscape movement
- Hudson River SchoolAmerican Romantic landscape tradition
- art colonyResidential creative community
- easelUpright frame for paintings
- tonalismArt emphasizing mood, atmosphere
brushes · canvas · plein air · open air · natural light · landscapist · pastoral · Romanticism · impressionism · Dutch Golden Age · river valley · realism · seascape · perspective · glazing · color palette · field sketch · oil paints
- paintersBotticelli, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Da Vinci, Dali
- art peopleartist, sculptor, illustrator, ceramicist, printmaker
- amateur artistsself-taught artist, art student, doodler, sketcher
- Australian ArtAboriginal art, indigenous art, Mona
- naturalistsCharles Darwin, naturalist, field researcher, botanist, Carl Linnaeus
landscape painterabstract painter
Artist avoiding literal depiction
abstract expressionist · conceptual artist · action painter · surrealist · cubist
painting, painted, landscape, painter, scenery, panorama, landscaping, unpainted, repaint