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Modern Landscape: From Narrative To Conceptual
Landscape painting has had its roots in Western culture since antiquity. The Greeks and Romans created stucco murals of idealized bucolic landscape to decorate their palaces and country villas. After a decline during the middle ages landscape painting was revived by Italian Renaissance painters such as Giorgione representing a growing appreciation for the natural world and man鈥檚 place within it. The seventeenth through 19th Centuries saw the landscape reach its pinnacle in traditional narrative painting.
With the invention of photography painting was liberated from its roll in documenting the world of things. Through the next hundred years artists explored the psychological effects of color, texture and gesture, injecting the work with their own inner emotions and perceptions. This has been true for landscape painters as well beginning with the French Fauve and German Expressionist movements of the early twentieth Century and continuing to today.
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Landscape painting has had its roots in Western culture since antiquity. The Greeks and Romans created stucco murals of idealized bucolic landscape to decorate their palaces and country villas. After a decline during the middle ages landscape painting was revived by Italian Renaissance painters such as Giorgione representing a growing appreciation for the natural world and man鈥檚 place within it. The seventeenth through 19th Centuries saw the landscape reach its pinnacle in traditional narrative painting.
With the invention of photography painting was liberated from its roll in documenting the world of things. Through the next hundred years artists explored the psychological effects of color, texture and gesture, injecting the work with their own inner emotions and perceptions. This has been true for landscape painters as well beginning with the French Fauve and German Expressionist movements of the early twentieth Century and continuing to today.
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