landscape

The landscape is a pictorial gender portraying mountains, rivers, lands, bridges or architectural spaces. The ideal and harmonious concept, as we know today, arises with the French painter Claude Lorrain. For several centuries, for the gym this gender is seen as lower, in relation to religious, mythological paintings or portraits. From the seventeenth century in the Netherlands, there is an order growth of this theme, yet it is with the romanticism that this genus dominates and transposes its grandeur with artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and William Turner.

In the twentieth century, the motto of the landscape is recurrent; However, it is in the art Land Art That it is no longer a representation of nature to become a process of artistic intervention in an ephemeral way, with artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer. Many artists currently continue to produce works on the pictorial ideal of landscape as Noronha da Costa, António Neves, Mota Urgeiro, Júlio Capela, among others.

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