Landscape Painting

What makes landscape painting popular to artists is that working on it is creating art out of a work of an art. Land is vast. And because it was filled with gifts of heavens that make such land a beauty, then this vastness was transformed to landscape which means by itself is an art. And people who are attracted to what pleases the eye create a replica of it.

Talk about work of art as landscape then you have Asia to look at. Asia is known for natural resources. The lush green covers the continent which in between are crystal clear waters. Go to the opposite panorama and you have deserts and pyramids. From greens, we divert to the neutral colors of browns. Asia by itself is panoramic which means Asian art is popular when it comes to landscape paintings. It is true that out of creativity, art can be created. An artist who has not seen anything can see visions by just imagining.  This happens to a few but actual exposure to that something can make the majority create an artwork out of it. That explains as to why Asian art mastered landscape painting.  Nature is what people see. And it is this natural landscape of the continent that serves as the people’s refuge over unsightly views of poverty.

Creating landscape painting and extending its beauty to the viewers became the means for the people to show their gratitude to nature. In fact, landscape art becomes more patronized after a massive distraction of one region due to calamity. People’s peace offering to mother nature is expressed through replicating the beauty of the surroundings by the use of art. This applies more commonly to Asian arts where history of people was inclined to worshipping nature. Asians see mother nature so alive rewarding humankind with natural resources and punishing them, too for negligence in handling such beautiful reward. This notion becomes widespread that Asian countries set their mind to make calamities as an outcry of our neglected surrounding. And to give nature back what it deserves, beautiful landscape wall paintings are patronized even more.  Nature is artists’ true inspiration.

Asian art especially as that of Chinese pioneered landscape paintings. As we know, China along with Japan and others are known likewise for their relaxing gardens. These aren’t even nature at all like mountains covered with lush green. But these are man-made landscapes meaning raw lands were turned in to a beautiful work of art.  You see a garden, the blue sky, and sometimes with people and animals in the scene. And most importantly, weather is a frequent if not constant composition. All the more that you see artists expert on landscape art from archipelago like that of the Philippines where nature is rich and untouched.