landscape painting

Nature on canvas

Landscape painting is a genre of visual art depicting natural scenery—mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, skies.

The tradition flourished in 17th-century Dutch art and later in movements like Romanticism and Impressionism.

A landscape painting is any individual work in this genre: The museum's collection includes several landscape paintings by the Hudson River School.

Opposites
subject matter

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Artistic depiction of person

portraiture · portrait · figure painting · self-portrait · still life

representational vs. non-representational

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Art avoiding realistic imagery

abstract art · abstract expressionism · action painting

interior vs. exterior space

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Depiction of household activities

Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G