landscape painting
noun
1A painting representing a view of countryside: John Constable is famous for his landscape paintings...
- The relationship between the two artists is further illuminated by comparison of the use of underdrawing in their early landscape paintings.
- The landscape paintings of the Swiss mountains are among his most beautiful ones.
- In 1876, a landscape painting by Gauguin was accepted for the Salon d' Automne.
1.1 [mass noun] The genre of painting pictures representing a view of countryside: a strong tradition of landscape painting emerged in Chinese art...
- From around 1880, he was increasingly preoccupied with landscape painting.
- He often collaborated with his nephew Marco, who became a specialist in decorative landscape painting.
- I think the point where I begin a painting is the point where traditional landscape painting leaves off.
Derivatives
landscape painter
- Emigration to Van Diemen's Land transformed this competent British landscape painter into a memorably poetic artist.
- His dramatic Scandinavian landscapes introduced scenery, hitherto unknown to Dutch landscape painters.
- He had been the leading Scottish landscape painter of his period.