Landscape is one of the most popular genres of fine art. In each new generation of artists there are lovers of this particular genre. Pictures of nature excite the imagination of not only recognized masters, but also novice painters and graphic artists.
A sense of harmony
A creative person is characterized by a striving for harmony. Sometimes he looks for this feeling in the most unexpected places, arranging objects in his own way or looking for an extraordinary person in the crowd. Nature is harmonious in itself. An ancient park or a remote corner of the forest with age-old trees and a slow river can create a sense of harmony for an impressionable person.
Changing light
Nature is constantly changing. One and the same corner looks different not only in winter, spring, summer and autumn, but also at different times of the day. You can draw it every day, and the drawings will not repeat each other. Bright colors of the July dawn, pastel tones of a rainy day, long mysterious shadows at the hour of sunset, clouds that look like mysterious creatures excite the imagination and force the artist to take up the brush again and again.
Consonance
The state of nature is always in tune with the mood of a person. They kind of complement each other, and in any combination. A rainy autumn day is often accompanied by a feeling of sadness, but unexpected joy can also overwhelm a person, which can color the world in a new way. The artist will win in any case. Depicting nature, he will convey his mood. In any case, it will be harmonious, even if the state of mind and the view from the window seem to contradict each other. Autumn rain can be not only gray and dull, but also shimmer joyfully with all the colors of the rainbow.
Free element
The artist is attracted to nature and the fact that it is not always subject to man. Perhaps there are even more paintings depicting the indomitable power of nature than idyllic pastoral landscapes. Thunderstorms, storms, volcanic eruptions are not only frightening, but also delightful. They are beautiful in their own way, and, accordingly, are able to attract the closest attention of the artist.
Environment
The corners of nature are depicted on their canvases not only by landscape painters, but also by those who prefer the portrait genre. Portrait painters often place their characters in a garden, then on the bank of a stream, or in a field. This allows not only to maximally acquaint the viewer with the person depicted in the portrait, because it is by what surrounds a person that one can judge about hobbies, profession, era, but also provides an additional opportunity to create the desired mood in the viewer. The visitor of the exhibition can also see nature pictures on genre canvases. Sometimes they are written with documentary precision, which creates in the viewer a sense of involvement, penetration into the era and country where these characters lived.
