Landscape Art
This category of visual art relates with a critical period in history, revolves around depictions of nature, and is referred to as landscape art. This form originated in the 17th century during the Dutch Golden Age, when celebrated artists, Ruisdael and Claude Lorrain, practically invented a style that captured, with unparalleled detail, various aspects of the nature. Turner and Caspar David Friedrich's, pieces showed a shift in the art world when they added emotional and spiritual elements to nature which was a huge contribution during the Romantic period in the 19th century.
It ranges from a realistic depiction to abstract space, indicating the breadth of skill, ideology, and emotions that can be expressed by an artist. Paintings primarily focus on landscape can force the observer to process various feelings or ideas related to beauty, nature, culture, solitude, or pollution. Such pieces are arguably the most powerful in evoking creativity within an individual and thus, landscape art serves as a motivation for modern day improving and changing trends of art.
As noted, a piece of art depicting landscape acts as a form of communication that depicts how profoundly humans are connected to nature, thus encouraging consideration to be given to the elegance and intricacy of the surroundings. Despite all the changes in various artistic movements and epochs, landscape art in all its forms will always be one of the greatest, everlasting and most important genres of art that shows the wonders of nature.
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