Themes cloud
- Animals, birds and fish
- Architecture
- Boats and ships
- Cinema, music and theatre
- Cityscape
- Food and drink
- Furniture
- Interiors
- Landscape
- Leisure, pastimes and sport
- Literature and Fiction
- Mythological
- Narrative and story telling
- Nature
- Nudes
- Object
- People
- Places
- Portraiture
- Religion and Belief
- Representational
- Science and Technology
- Society and culture
- Society and politics
- Still Life
- Travel
- Water
- Work and Occupations
Eveleen Buckton, NANT GWYNANT, 1943
- Landscape
Landscape is one of the principle genres of Western art. In early paintings the landscape was a backdrop for the composition, but in the late 17th Century the appreciation of nature for its own sake began with the French and Dutch painters (from whom the term derived). Their treatment of…