Gardening - Original Abstract Artwork and Landscape Art

Panorama art, often painted on canvas, is the interpretation of natural scenery like mountains, valleys, trees, waterways, and forests. The main subject of the art work is a wide view, with its elements set up into a coherent formula. Although the scenery may well not be the key focus of the painting, landscape qualification for the objects and figures can still be an important part.

The sky is practically always represented in landscape art, and weather is often an important element. The panorama is a representation, so it has developed in cultures which may have a superior custom and history of symbolizing other subjects in artwork. Advanced examples of surroundings art exists in American painting and Chinese artwork, both heading back well over one thousand years.

Early on landscapes were of mythical scenes, although  landscape art   views represented actual cities, with varying degrees of accuracy and reliability. Various techniques were used to simulate the randomness of natural forms in invented compositions. Degas, for example, created cloud varieties from a crumpled handkerchief held up resistant to the light, and Alexander Cozens used random ink blots to form the basic condition of the invented landscape, which he elaborated upon.

This took some time in the history of art for landscapes to become a popular, established subject. Before the 1700s, panorama paintings were considered lower in status than portraiture, which patrons tended to value more. Most artwork that depicted things that occurred outside in character didn't give attention to the mother nature itself, but on some event that happened there or on individuals or still-life. The nature was a backdrop, and never the give attention to the painting.

Surroundings painting goes completely back again to the 8th hundred years in China, where you will find a strong tradition of shan shui ("mountain-water"), an ink painting consisting of a "pure" landscape. The only sign of life in these paintings is just one sage, or a glance of his hut.

Surroundings backgrounds became more and more complex in Cina as the centuries proceeded to go by, until it became a classic and much-imitated form of art. Many of time Chinese panorama painting, similar to Both roman times, consisted of grand panoramas of imaginary moments, usually backed with a variety of spectacular mountains.