When we asked Professional Practice Network (PPN) members for their favorite portrayal of a landscape in a work of art, we welcomed answers from any medium: paintings, movies, literature, and anything else our members might want to highlight. The answers received covered a diverse range of provenances and forms, and many were very enthusiastic. As one respondent succinctly put it: “So many! Love those that express the emotion of unique landscape experiences.”
Paintings and painters were the most popular type of response, with Monet and Van Gogh as the two clear favorites. However, many other artists and works were mentioned, and they are highlighted below. This post focuses on 2D art: paintings, photography, posters, and prints. Next time, we’ll review responses that covered everything from films to music to video games. (For even more information in this vein, check out Some Landscapes’ chronology of events, books, and artworks depicting landscape as a medium since 1800 BCE.)
Nineteenth-Century & Earlier Paintings and Drawings
17th century Dutch painters
18th and 19th century depictions of the Bernese Oberland
Albert Bierstadt
Birger Sandzén
Chinese landscape paintings
Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield, Jacob van Ruisdael
François Boucher
Gustav Klimt’s landscapes
Hudson River School artists: Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Moran
Japanese landscape paintings in the Zen Style
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
J. M. W. Turner
John Singer Sargent’s watercolors
La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat
Paul Gauguin
Pierre Bonnard’s paintings through windows in the south of France
Winslow Homer
Twentieth-Century & Contemporary Paintings
“Kazuo Oga’s paintings of landscapes (more known for doing background paintings for Studio Ghibli anime films)”
Edward Hopper
Georgia O’Keefe
Mark Rothko’s abstract expressions of landscape
Maxfield Parrish
P.A. Nisbet
Paul Klee’s views of Tunisia
Salvador Dali’s Catalan landscapes
“The paintings of Davis Perkins of California capture the essence and beauty of landscapes.”
Thin Ice, Andrew Wyeth
Windy Day in Auxerre, Chaim Soutine
Posters, Prints, & Photography
AE Bye’s photography
Alex MacLean’s photography
Ansel Adams’ photography
Audubon Society prints
David Hockney’s Pearlblossom Hwy.
Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings
At the start of 2015, a questionnaire was sent out to members of ASLA’s Professional Practice Networks (PPNs). The theme: creativity and inspired design. As you can imagine, responses were varied, and included many insightful comments and suggestions. Synopses of the survey results were originally shared in LAND over the course of 2015, and we are now re-posting this information here on The Field. For the latest updates on the results of the annual PPN Survey, see LAND’s PPN News section.