In popular terms, landscape painting is a painting with scenery as its theme. Landscape painting in Chinese painting belongs to landscape painting, but this concept is not used. This word was introduced to China in the 20th century, and it is only used in oil paintings and watercolors imported from the west. Western oil painting landscape and China landscape painting were originally used as the background of figure painting, and then gradually developed into independent painting themes.
In the west, landscape painting is an independent branch. In the watercolor paintings of German painter A. Diu Lei and the oil paintings of A. Art. Dover, local landscape paintings appeared. This kind of painting matured in Holland in the17th century. Van Resta, Wiezell and Hobema have made great contributions to the development of landscape painting. At the same time, the main branches such as seascape painting, night scene painting and street scene painting also came into being. Italy has an idyllic ideal landscape, while France has a heroic landscape of ancient mythical figures. J Costa, an English painter in the 0/8th century A.D./KLOC, made decisive progress in landscape painting. His attitude of describing nature directly influenced French impressionist painters. /kloc-painters in the 0 th and 9 th centuries also paid attention to natural scenery such as mountains, seas, late autumn and morning fog that had never been described by predecessors. With C. Connor The barbizon School headed by J.-F. Millay began to adopt a naturalistic attitude to express scenery. /kloc-In the late 20th century, impressionist painters made landscape painting an important category in painting with the subtle coordination of light and shade and color. Russian landscape painting is represented by I.I. shishkin and Levitan. Japanese is represented by Kaii Higashiyama. After western painting was introduced to China, Yan was a famous landscape painter in the early days, and Wu Guanzhong's landscape paintings were full of national feelings.