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Chusovaya River. Slobodsky stone
Chusovaya River. Slobodsky stone

Chusovaya River. Slobodsky stone

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In crafting this serene riverside painting, I sought to capture the majestic tranquility of nature with passion and sensitivity. Using oil paints, I embraced the techniques of impres...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sveti Stefan
Sveti Stefan

Sveti Stefan

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In creating this piece, I sought to embody the serene yet vibrant aura of the Mediterranean. The textured strokes and luminous palette capture the dynamic interplay of light on water...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sunflowers in Kolomenskoye, Impressionist Oil on Canvas, Framed, 2010+
Sunflowers in Kolomenskoye, Impressionist Oil on Canvas, Framed, 2010+

Sunflowers in Kolomenskoye, Impressionist Oil on Canvas, Framed, 2010+

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

A small garden in Kolomenskoye Park where sunflowers grew attracted me with its picturesque view. The beauty of the rhythms of the golden colors and the variety of green spots in the...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Palm trees. Sliema
Palm trees. Sliema

Palm trees. Sliema

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

A vibrant street scene features lush green palm trees against the backdrop of a clear blue sky and a building with muted tones. The composition captures the serene atmosphere of a su...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Gumbet bay at the end day
Gumbet bay at the end day

Gumbet bay at the end day

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In this oil painting, I captured the serene twilight over a bustling bay. The gentle interplay of the soft blues and vivid oranges across the sky and water reflect the peaceful yet v...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tropical Paradise
Tropical Paradise

Tropical Paradise

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

I have completed a new still life. Some of the props were given to me for my birthday, they were fruits. That prompted me to put on a still life. The frame for the painting has alrea...

Category

2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Yachts in the port of Mandraki
Yachts in the port of Mandraki

Yachts in the port of Mandraki

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

The old fortress and port of Mandraki on the island of Rhodes in Greece is a tourist harbor where both very large cruise ships and small ships dock. People are eager to see local att...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Morning. Rocky coast
Morning. Rocky coast

Morning. Rocky coast

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In crafting this piece, I was drawn to the interplay between the rugged, unyielding rock and the serene, forgiving waters. Using oils, I embraced the realism to capture the tangible ...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The heat does not frighten you
The heat does not frighten you

The heat does not frighten you

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In creating this vibrant garden scene, I endeavored to fuse the raw emotive force of Impressionism with a touch of Realism's clarity. Each brushstroke captures the dynamic interplay ...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Dawn in Bali. Yachts
Dawn in Bali. Yachts

Dawn in Bali. Yachts

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In the small and cozy village of Bali on the island of Crete, in the summer of 2017, we spent a whole month. This motif I painted in a different state of nature, and never once did i...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Snow-covered garden. Kuzminki
Snow-covered garden. Kuzminki

Snow-covered garden. Kuzminki

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In this oil painting, I encapsulated the serene embrace of winter. The impressionistic strokes and tinges of realism create a vivid scene—a hushed garden where each snowflake tells a...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Connemara Mountains
Connemara Mountains

Connemara Mountains

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In my painting, I sought to capture the timeless essence of nature, blending the vividness of impressionism with the authenticity of realism. Through subtle brushstrokes in oil, I ex...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Long Crendon. Hyde Street
Long Crendon. Hyde Street

Long Crendon. Hyde Street

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In this painting, I sought to capture the serene, almost timeless essence of an English village at dusk. My brushstrokes carry the cool tones of twilight, blending with the warm ligh...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Stari Bar
Stari Bar

Stari Bar

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

The Old Bar in Montenegro is a true paradise for a plein air of ancient architecture, a stone city and a clock tower, A variety of trees and burnt dry grass on a scorching sun. The t...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Autumn forest. October
Autumn forest. October

Autumn forest. October

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

A serene landscape captures a cluster of trees in vibrant autumn colors beneath a sky streaked with soft clouds. The scene exudes a sense of calm and tranquility, with its rich blend...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

October. Chamzinka
October. Chamzinka

October. Chamzinka

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

I fell in love with this motif as soon as I saw it walking along the road in the village of Chamzinka on an autumn evening after painting the Church of Archangel Michael. October is ...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

The gave. October. Chamzinka
The gave. October. Chamzinka

The gave. October. Chamzinka

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

The gave. October. Chamzinka. In this not long time, when "Indian Summer" carries warmth, it is a wonderful time for a painter. Hands are still not freezing from the cold wind and ra...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

October evening at the farm
October evening at the farm

October evening at the farm

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

This sketch was painted in the evening after painting in the Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Chamzinka. The evening was very warm and calm. Usually I am not very interested in...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Bath day
Bath day

Bath day

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

The bathhouse was flooded in the evening on a day off. You can feel the smoke from burning wood from far away. At the end of a dying day, he painted a sketch. You can look at the bur...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Evening. Baths and sheds
Evening. Baths and sheds

Evening. Baths and sheds

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

Once while going on a sketch in the outskirts of the village in the backyards and gardens, I met a fox. The fox played with me. He hid behind haystacks behind small hay, and at my ap...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

August. Summer gifts. Sunflowers
August. Summer gifts. Sunflowers

August. Summer gifts. Sunflowers

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In this painting, I've captured sunflowers swaying gently in a lush meadow, utilizing oil to meld impressionism with realism. The brush strokes imbue the scene with vitality, reflect...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Golden time. Chamzinka
Golden time. Chamzinka

Golden time. Chamzinka

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

The fleetingness of autumn, when the first rain knocks down the gold of the foliage, undressing the trees, and the blessed short solar time. The color combinations at this time becom...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

October. Park in Chamzinka
October. Park in Chamzinka

October. Park in Chamzinka

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

As never before, nature has given us a long and warm autumn this year. This simple motif in the park with birch, willows and oak, with a difference in texture and color. I wanted to ...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

June evening. Chamzinka
June evening. Chamzinka

June evening. Chamzinka

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

The motive attracted me with its compositional construction. The rhythms of baths and houses with their rooftops at sunset. Warm glancing light and cold shadow. When I was painting t...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

The moon has risen. Chamzinka
The moon has risen. Chamzinka

The moon has risen. Chamzinka

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

This condition is very fleeting. It is almost dusk, and paint mixtures are not visible on the palette. In many ways, you write more from experience and knowledge than from a whim, so...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Birches in gold
Birches in gold

Birches in gold

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In this oil painting, I sought to capture the vibrancy of autumn through a blend of impressionism and realism. The golden hues of the birch tree, set against a soft, tranquil sky, re...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Old house. Chamzinka
Old house. Chamzinka

Old house. Chamzinka

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

I did not immediately see this old house on the outskirts of the village. Walking around the village in the summer I saw a wooden house smeared with clay on one side. The texture is ...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Red field. Mordovia
Red field. Mordovia

Red field. Mordovia

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

When the harvesting is actively going on in the fields, I painted sketches in packs collecting them. There are such long blue shadows. Shadows run swiftly and the field is bright red...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Yachts. Corfu
Yachts. Corfu

Yachts. Corfu

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In this oil painting, I've blended Impressionism with realism to capture the gentle caress of the sun on the rippling sea, evoking a sense of serene solitude. The play of light whisp...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Foggy morning
Foggy morning

Foggy morning

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

Around five oclock in the morning the sun rises near the Volga River. In the evening, everything was shrouded in thick fog; in the morning it takes on purple and blue shades. Objects...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

January
January

January

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In crafting this piece, I embraced the serenity of a winter's embrace. With oil as my medium, I layered textures and hues to capture the chill and beauty of nature's slumber. My brus...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Veliky Ustyug. Evening. Embankment
Veliky Ustyug. Evening. Embankment

Veliky Ustyug. Evening. Embankment

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

The sunset in the North lasts quite a long time, which allows you to work out more details and understand the shades of color when writing a full-scale sketch. The city of Veliky Ust...

Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Gray Day in Izmailovsky Park - Pastel Landscape Painting, 14x23 cm
Gray Day in Izmailovsky Park - Pastel Landscape Painting, 14x23 cm

Gray Day in Izmailovsky Park - Pastel Landscape Painting, 14x23 cm

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

A cloudy day in a snowy winter park when the temperature is close to zero and the air is very humid. Snow and sky almost merge in tone and delicate combinations of gray pastel colors...

Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Bratsevo estate. First green
Bratsevo estate. First green

Bratsevo estate. First green

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

These are puddles in April from melted snow and mirror reflections of trees and branches in them. The color of the puddle is green and this gives the reflection a nice tint and blur....

Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Appaloosa Horse Oil Painting Figurative Artwork by Russian painter 40x60
Appaloosa Horse Oil Painting Figurative Artwork by Russian painter 40x60

Appaloosa Horse Oil Painting Figurative Artwork by Russian painter 40x60

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

PLEASE NOTE: Shipping WITHOUT frame with DHL Service. In this painting, I lovingly captured the unique spirit of the horse, its dappled coat a symbol of individuality. The rich oils...

Category

Early 2000s Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sunset. Chusovaya River. Kyn
Sunset. Chusovaya River. Kyn

Sunset. Chusovaya River. Kyn

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

Kyn is a rural locality (a settlement) in Lysva, Perm Krai, Russia. Warm evening, after a hot day, the boats rest off the coast. Gilding sunset on that shore playing with reflection ...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

By the river. Kuzminki Park
By the river. Kuzminki Park

By the river. Kuzminki Park

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In summer, the river, surrounded by trees along the banks, flows calmly, and occasionally you can see fish swimming in clear water. Summer heat plunges into an atmosphere of laziness...

Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Velikan Stone
Velikan Stone

Velikan Stone

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

Ancient rocks in the Urals rising from the Chusovaya River like the image of an enchanted giant forever frozen in stone. These prototypes of the fairy tale can be found in the “Mistr...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Aragonese castle. Ischia
Aragonese castle. Ischia

Aragonese castle. Ischia

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

This castle, located on an island of rock, attracts many tourists due to its picturesqueness. The very variety of stone and vegetation, although not very dense, creates a texture of ...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Sunset. Plyos
Sunset. Plyos

Sunset. Plyos

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

A place of power and inspiration for a landscape painter is a small town on the Volga - Plyos. Situated on the high bank of the river, its architecture and picturesque attractions at...

Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Rocky shores. Chusovaya River. Golden sunset
Rocky shores. Chusovaya River. Golden sunset

Rocky shores. Chusovaya River. Golden sunset

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

Traveling in Russia, I wanted to visit the Urals, the Chusovaya River. Since the mistress of the copper mountain lives in the Urals according to fairy tales. These majestic stones wi...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Bridge in Tsaritsyno
Bridge in Tsaritsyno

Bridge in Tsaritsyno

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

The bridge on the Orekhovskaya dam in Tsaritsyno is still wooden and very picturesque, located near the Yazvenka River, now a stone bridge has been built in its place. But at the beg...

Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Horse in the shade of trees
Horse in the shade of trees

Horse in the shade of trees

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In early September, a festival is held on the Borodino field where military historical clubs take part and many lovers of horse riding and horses gather. Among the many horses waitin...

Category

2010s Impressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

February. Meadery. Kolomenskoye
February. Meadery. Kolomenskoye

February. Meadery. Kolomenskoye

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

This meadery in Kolomenskoye Park is known to many park visitors. It is located next to the front gate to the left of the entrance to the park on the territory of the Kazan Garden. I...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Oriental still life
Oriental still life

Oriental still life

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

This symphony of blue, rich in textures, reflexes and ornaments, the charm of the east, the plastic language of symbolism. The combination of warm and cold shade and light on canvas....

Category

2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

February
February

February

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In winter, the enchantress wrapped trees in the Kolomensky garden with her duvet. Many branches of trees broke due to the large amount of snow, and the snow itself looks like foam, s...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The cart with the horse. Suzdal
The cart with the horse. Suzdal

The cart with the horse. Suzdal

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

Since childhood, I have been indifferent to horses, I love to draw them very much, conveying their grace and beauty, play of colors on the skin like mother of pearl. This horse and c...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Winter day
Winter day

Winter day

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

A light frost shackled the branches of trees in Bratsevo Park, covering them with light frost. A short winter day with a fairly low passing sun turns the snow and tree branches pink....

Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

On the rocky shores
On the rocky shores

On the rocky shores

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

I painted this view in a rather high rock from a sketch in the workshop. From this place I painted a couple of field studies, one in the afternoon and the other in the evening at sun...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dead tree
Dead tree

Simon KozhinDead tree, 2002

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Dead tree

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

An old tree already dead overgrown with moss in the forest thicket. The tree trunk has already been eaten by a bug, and its picturesque texture with a variety of tonal nuances attrac...

Category

Early 2000s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Magazine Paper

April evening in the village of Klykovo
April evening in the village of Klykovo

April evening in the village of Klykovo

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

A quiet and cool evening in April by the river conveys the mood of light nostalgia for the time when the first love comes. The singing of birds is already becoming audible, and the f...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

View of the City From the Thames, Impressionist Oil on Canvas, 2007
View of the City From the Thames, Impressionist Oil on Canvas, 2007

View of the City From the Thames, Impressionist Oil on Canvas, 2007

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

For painting a picture, I made a few full-scale etudes of night London. I hope that the audience looking at my picture will feel the energy of the night city. This red sky only happe...

Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blocks Hours of Ice
Blocks Hours of Ice

Blocks Hours of Ice

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

Huge melting ice floats in the Atlantic Ocean, gradually melting and dissolving in it. Provenance: 2007 - 2016 Private collection. Exhibition: 2019 Exhibition at the international co...

Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Winter night
Winter night

Winter night

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

And how romantic the night landscapes are. The city, illuminated by the lights, in the distance, as if beckons and calls to itself. And we suddenly clearly feel how the artist enthus...

Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

New Year. Yaroslavsky station
New Year. Yaroslavsky station

New Year. Yaroslavsky station

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

My favorite season in Moscow is the New Year holidays. Snow, the city is decorated with colorful lights, New Year trees appear, the city comes to life on the eve of miracles. The fee...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Powers-court Estate. Playing Golf
Powers-court Estate. Playing Golf

Powers-court Estate. Playing Golf

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

On our trip to Ireland, we stopped at the Power Court estate, which reminds me a bit of the architecture of St. Petersburg.I saw people playing golf near the park. The weather was c...

Category

Early 2000s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper

Sunset
Sunset

Sunset

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

Antarctic sunset is an ongoing winter day with gusts of wind off the coast. Ice blocks with snow with a huge variety of shades and colors. Provenance: 2007 - 2016 Private collection....

Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Kolpachny Lane
Kolpachny Lane

Kolpachny Lane

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

In September 2022, I painted from life a pink house on Kolpachny Lane. I chose a point for painting the motif next to Mazepas chambers in the Kitay-Gorod area. In the study, I tried ...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Frosty evening. View of the water tower and the Church of the Ascension
Frosty evening. View of the water tower and the Church of the Ascension

Frosty evening. View of the water tower and the Church of the Ascension

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

Winter in the city rarely offers sunny days. But in February and March there are sunny days. One sunny day I spotted this motif in Kolomenskoye. It is in winter that it is most lacon...

Category

2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Impressionist Oil Painting of Church of Elijah the Prophet, Cherkizovo
Impressionist Oil Painting of Church of Elijah the Prophet, Cherkizovo

Impressionist Oil Painting of Church of Elijah the Prophet, Cherkizovo

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

On a gray autumn day when it rains quite often and the leaves fly away especially quickly, changing the landscape with a view of the temple from October gold and copper shades to the...

Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

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Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.

The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.

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It could be argued that cave walls were the canvases for the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict and elevate natural scenery through art, but there is a richer history to consider.

The Netherlands was home to landscapes as a major theme in painting as early as the 1500s, and ink-on-silk paintings in China featured mountains and large bodies of water as far back as the third century. Greeks created vast wall paintings that depicted landscapes and grandiose garden scenes, while in the late 15th century and early 16th century, landscapes were increasingly the subject of watercolor works by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo.

The popularity of religious paintings eventually declined altogether, and by the early 19th century, painters of classical landscapes took to painting out-of-doors (plein-air painting). Paintings of natural scenery were increasingly realistic but romanticized too. Into the 20th century, landscapes remained a major theme for many artists, and while the term “landscape painting” may call to mind images of lush, grassy fields and open seascapes, the genre is characterized by more variety, colors and diverse styles than you may think. Painters working in the photorealist style of landscape painting, for example, seek to create works so lifelike that you may confuse their paint for camera pixels. But if you’re shopping for art to outfit an important room, the work needs to be something with a bit of gravitas (and the right frame is important, too).

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