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.

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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