Landscape 
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The word "landscape" is of French origin and means "nature". This perfectly reflects the very essence of this direction - the image of natural motives.
The history of the landscape began a long time ago when a primitive man began to decorate the walls of his caves with primitive images of lakes, rivers and trees. At all times and at all times, the best and most talented artists have paid tribute to the landscape genre, creating true masterpieces of painting that are the pride and zest of collections of paintings in many museums around the world.
Isaac Levitan - Field
Over time, more and more new varieties of landscape painting arise. Initially, there is only the so-called landscape view, and this is typical mainly for graphics, in which the idea of ever-renewing nature served as the most understandable manifestation of life. But the image of nature is only part of the composition and is not brought to the fore. Such as, landscape design , which always remains for the most part the background, nevertheless, is the most important detail that affects your impression of the appearance of the garden.
During the Renaissance, the content of the landscape rises: next to the usual species, topographic, idyllic and heroic appear, which are more emotionally saturated. And the paintings that can be attributed to a purely landscape genre are first started to be painted by artists from the Netherlands - Herry met de Bles and Joachim Patinir.
In later times, landscape paintings reflect certain moods and motifs that are characteristic of various artistic trends: romanticism, classicism, and even modernism. The greatest Russian masters of landscape are Isaac Levitan, Konstantin Yuon, Ivan Shishkin, Vasily Polenov, Nikolai Roerich, Arkhip Kuindzhi.
The twentieth century brings two more varieties to the landscape - industrial and urban (the urban landscape is often called the vedut). But the paintings of old masters are still very popular, and many are happy to decorate their homes with reproductions of famous paintings.