A Brief History of Western Landscape Painting

In the West, landscape painting emerged as a genre rather late compared to the East. In this video, we will quickly look at how artists have represented the world through landscape painting, evolving from representational to impressionistic and even moving towards abstraction. This will be traced from how artists initially used landscapes as settings for their narrative paintings, to the Renaissance, to the Dutch Golden Age, to Baroque and Rococo, the Neo-Classicism period, the Romantic movement, to Impressionism and modern movements such as Cubism, Fauvism, Expressionism and Surrealism. We will also look at contemporary artists that continue to evolve the genre.
2023 UPDATE: Please note there is an error for the photo of Per Kirkeby. The one included is erroneously of Howard Hodgkin.
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*CHAPTERS:*
0:00 Intro
0:19 What is Landscape Painting?
0:54 Context
1:28 Narrative Paintings (or History Paintings) (1300s)
2:16 Renaissance (1400s-1600s)
3:01 Classical Landscape
3:25 Dutch Golden Age (c1590-1670)
4:27 Baroque (1600s to 1740s)
5:40 Rococo (1700s)
6:30 Neoclassicism (1750-1800s)
7:16 Romanticism (1800-1850)
8:35 Impressionism (mid 1800s)
9:28 Post-Impressionism (late 1800s)
10:21 Fauvism (1905-1910)
10:59 Cubism (c1910)
11:19 German Expressionism (c1910s)
12:07 Canadian Group of Seven & Emily Carr (1920-1933)
12:40 Surrealism (1920s)
12:56 Modern Shifts
13:29 Richard Diebenkorn
13:45 Alex Katz
13:59 Wayne Thiebaud
14:13 Wolf Kahn
14:24 Richard Mayhew
14:40 David Hockney
14:56 Contemporary Landscape Artists Intro
15:10 Per Kirkeby
15:28 Vija Celmins
15:38 Peter Doig
15:58 Etal Adnan
16:09 Andreas Eriksson
16:15 Harold Ancart
16:30 Conclusion

[@crafteechloe8587]

A really useful video for me, I am doing an art course about landscape, and history of art so this has really helped me. Thanks

[@FrankCurkovic]

You're very welcome!

[@user-sb3wh3dd4v]

Thank You FRANK! I wish my first semester at art school was this concise. Another excellent informative video!

[@FrankCurkovic]

You're very welcome!

[@mollyduncan5365]

Thank you for the introduction to art history. Your made it so interesting!

[@FrankCurkovic]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. Much appreciated.

[@danielleparent8505]

It was sooooo interesting and educational. Thank you :)

[@FrankCurkovic]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@cynthiahonorio9758]

Wow. Informative. Well researched. Thank you.

[@FrankCurkovic]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for taking the time to comment.

[@matthiaspfau7410]

That was a fun tour de force. Thank you.

[@FrankCurkovic]

Glad you enjoyed it Thank you for taking the time to comment. Appreciated.

[@nathanwilson7105]

hi! do you have a bibliography for this video? id love to check out some of this for an essay im writing

[@FrankCurkovic]

Hi, unfortunately I don't have that. Sorry.

[@jenna2431]

Erin Hanson and Turner Vinson.

[@FrankCurkovic]

Will check them out!

[@JoseRoman-lj6eq]

I need help guy I have a set of landscape paintings by Arthur E Bard their from 1959 they where commission for someone named Al Carter oil paintings on board can someone point me in right direction

[@FrankCurkovic]

You may have to google him and check if he has been in some auction houses, or has gallery representation.

[@jenna2431]

Chiaroscuro is kee-air-o-SKU-roh.

[@FrankCurkovic]

Grazie!

[@user-ge4ic4wc6n]

That's not a photo of Per Kirkeby it's of Howard Hodgkin. Plus the Canadian Group of Seven simply have no place in the history of landscape painting

[@FrankCurkovic]

Gosh darnit you are correct re: the photo! Not a fan of the Group of Seven? Tried incorporating additional international artists.