{"id":7907,"date":"2020-05-20T09:03:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T09:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiqets-blog-staging.local\/famous-landscape-paintings\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:54:14","slug":"famous-landscape-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/famous-landscape-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Landscape Paintings and Their Real-Life Locations","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>\u2013&nbsp;This post was written by&nbsp;<strong><strong>Neesha Kanga<\/strong> <\/strong>\u2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The landscape painting tradition has passed through the hands of the Romantics, the Avant-Gardes, the postmodernists, and many more art movements \u2013 and a lot has changed in the world since they took to the canvas. A handful of places depicted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daslia.com\/popular-types-of-paintings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">landscape paintings<\/a> by famous artists have stood the test of time. Check out these ten real-life locations from famous landscape paintings that can still be visited today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"1fishermen-at-sea-1796-joseph-mallord-william-turner\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1.<\/strong><em><strong>Fishermen at Sea<\/strong><\/em><strong> (1796) \u2013 Joseph Mallord William Turner<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/William-Turner-Fishermen-at-Sea-The-Cholmeley-Sea-Piece-MeisterDrucke-680463-1.jpg\" alt=\"Fishermen at Sea (1796) \u2013 Joseph Mallord William Turner\" class=\"wp-image-231612\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This landscape painting by famous artist J.M.W. Turner is based on a popular coastline. Photo via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterdrucke.ie\/fine-art-prints\/Joseph-Mallord-William-Turner\/680463\/Fishermen-at-Sea---The-Cholmeley-Sea-Piece.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">meisterdrucke<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Current painting location:<\/strong> The Tate Collection, UK<br><br>As one of the pioneers of Romanticism, J.M.W. Turner had an affinity for the Sublime. In art, the Sublime is a feeling of delightful horror \u2013 beautiful catastrophes that envelope the viewer\u2019s mind and make them hopelessly awed by the raw power of nature. Turner\u2019s famous nature paintings bring about that feeling.<br><br><em>Fishermen at Sea <\/em>is one of Turner\u2019s earliest oil paintings. It was also the first to be exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. The nocturnal scene depicts fishermen on a small boat at sea, fighting against the high waves. The bright moonlight contrasts with the meager, flickering lantern on the boat \u2013 symbolic of the fragile vulnerability of the fishermen against the raging sea. Distant, jagged cliffs rise out from the vastness of the sea beyond. Everything here is about the overwhelming power of nature, a key theme of the Sublime.<br><br>If you want to experience just a fraction of Turner\u2019s Sublime, make for The Needles in the Isle of Wight in the English Channel. Those are the very same jagged silhouettes of treacherous rocks seen in <em>Fishermen at Sea<\/em>. The Needles are three stacks of chalk rocks that rise about 30 meters out of the sea. While they may be easy to get to, we don\u2019t recommend going by boat on a moonlit, stormy night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"2-the-starry-night-1889-vincent-van-gogh\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. <\/strong><em><strong>The Starry Night<\/strong><\/em><strong> (1889) \u2013 Vincent van Gogh<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Starry-Night-canvas-Vincent-van-Gogh-New-1889-copy.jpg\" alt=\"The Starry Night (1889) \u2013 Vincent van Gogh\" class=\"wp-image-231613\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Starry Night<\/em>, a moderately abstract\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/landscape-painting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">landscape painting<\/a>\u00a0(1889) of an expressive night sky over a small hillside village. Photo via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/The-Starry-Night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">britanica<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Current painting location:<\/strong> The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York<br><br>On 23 December 1988, Vincent van Gogh admitted himself to the Monastery Saint-Paul de Mausole lunatic asylum after self-mutilating his left ear. While there, he was given his own studio and became well-liked by the staff, despite numerous bouts of harrowing mental and physical outbursts. During his stay at Saint-Paul, he produced some 250 paintings, one of them being <em>The Starry Night. <\/em>If you\u2019re looking for landscape paintings by famous artists, this is the unequivocal jackpot.<br><br><em>The Starry Night<\/em> is perhaps the world\u2019s most famous landscape painting. The Post-Impressionist masterpiece captures the artist\u2019s hallucinatory dream state and demonstrates Van Gogh\u2019s mastery of a violently expressive form. The painter of sunflowers was also fascinated by the stars. His <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Starry_Night_Over_the_Rh%C3%B4ne\" target=\"_blank\">Starry Night over the Rhone<\/a> (1888) <\/em>features swirls of stars akin to the sketches of tiny <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whirlpool_Galaxy\" target=\"_blank\">whirlpool galaxies<\/a> done by astronomers of the past. Van Gogh, who was disillusioned by Christianity at this point in his life, was said to have sought religion in the skies and celestial objects.<br><br>If you want to see the town in <em>The Starry Night<\/em>, you\u2019ll be hard-pressed to find Van Gogh\u2019s exact depiction in Saint-R\u00e9my-de-Provence. This highly stylized beautiful landscape painting, while based on Saint-R\u00e9my, is an amalgamation of elements from the artist\u2019s homeland, the Netherlands, and what Van Gogh saw from the east-facing window of his Saint-R\u00e9my-de-Provence asylum room. However, you\u2019ll see lots of other true-to-life scenes in the wheatfields and town squares in Saint-R\u00e9my-de-Provence and nearby Arles, where the unmissable aura of Van Gogh still resides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"3-girl-in-a-boat-with-geese-1889-berthe-morisot\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. <\/strong><em><strong>Girl in a Boat, with Geese<\/strong><\/em><strong> (1889) \u2013 Berthe Morisot<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/girl_in_a_boat_with_geese_1970.17.50-1-848x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Girl in a Boat, with Geese (1889) \u2013 Berthe Morisot\" class=\"wp-image-231614\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Girl in a Boat with Geese,<\/em>\u00a0c. 1889. Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/collection\/art-object-page.52194.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Gallery of Art<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Current painting location:<\/strong> National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.<br><br>Female landscape painters are few and far between. Historically, female artists were limited to painting indoor scenes as it was believed that the outdoor fatigue of the landscape painter\u2019s lifestyle was <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.nl\/books?id=8_uECgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT122&amp;lpg=PT122&amp;dq=female+landscape+painters&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=nBAz8S5wGf&amp;sig=ACfU3U0Hhzb9LqhsDk8BUNpeBD8UrohmSA&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiLyrmriK7pAhWC2KQKHUeJAOYQ6AEwG3oECBMQAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=female%20landscape%20painters&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">ill-suited for women<\/a>. Landscape painting also required authority and understanding of the traveled land; to spend days and even weeks painting a landscape as it is lived in, and have it rendered by an authoritative perspective to create a narrative between the artist and the beholder. This is perhaps why so few female artists had the chance to make it in the landscape painting genre.<br><br>In spite of her gender, Berthe Morisot was among the most established of the Impressionists \u2013 in fact, she helped found the movement. She was married to Eduard Manet\u2019s brother, who created some of the world\u2019s most famous nature paintings. Morisot was the only woman to have had her works exhibited in the Salon de Paris alongside Manet, Pissarro, Degas, C\u00e9zanne, and Renoir. Despite this, her legacy remains relatively unknown and some of her works were once attributed to her male contemporaries. Manet\u2019s own sexism prevented him from seeing her true potential, as he said, \u201c\u2026the Morisot (sisters) are delightful. What a shame they aren\u2019t men; nonetheless they might, as women, serve the cause of painting by each marrying an academician.\u201d<br><br>Her art effortlessly captured the world of women in a male-dominated medium. The landscape painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot urged Morisot to expand her <em>en plein air<\/em>  (outdoor painting) technique by painting the outside world. Her more famous nature paintings showcase her keen Impressionist eye. <em>Girl in a Boat, with Geese<\/em> is breezy and fresh with lashings of pastel luminosity. Notice how in this beautiful landscape painting, Morisot pushes the boundary between sketch and brush strokes \u2013 a technique unique to her.<br><br>The real-life location that inspired this painting is unknown. However, Morisot frequently painted in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bois_de_Boulogne\" target=\"_blank\">Bois de Boulogne<\/a>, a large public park on the western edge of the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Characteristics of the park include thick, forested foliage, lots of geese, and being popular among painters; not to mention that 19th and 20th-century Parisians loved rowing boats on the lake. We think Bois de Boulogne is a pretty good bet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"4-a-sunday-afternoon-on-the-island-of-la-grande-jatte-18841886-nbsp-georges-seurat\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4. <\/strong><em><strong>A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte<\/strong><\/em><strong> (1884\u20131886) \u2013  Georges Seurat<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/A-Sunday-Afternoon-on-the-Island-of-La-Grande-Jatte-Detail.jpg\" alt=\"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884\u20131886) \u2013\u00a0 Georges Seurat\" class=\"wp-image-231615\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte<\/em> (1884\u20131886) \u2013\u00a0 Georges Seurat. Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/artincontext.org\/a-sunday-afternoon-on-the-island-of-la-grande-jatte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Art in Context<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Current painting location:<\/strong> The Art Institute of Chicago<br><br><em>A Sunday on La Grande Jatte<\/em> is one of the finest examples of Pointillism. Pointillism is\u2026 well, imagine if the Impressionists took just one brush technique \u2013 the dots \u2013 and ran with it. Paris is a goldmine for landscape paintings by famous artists, and this historic scene is set along the sparkling Seine. Between 1884 and 1886, Seurat studied and captured the landscape of \u00cele de la Grande Jatte in Paris, meticulously developing Neo-Impressionism in the process. It was the rebellious response to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From afar, <em>A Sunday on La Grande Jatte<\/em> doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s made up of a million, tiny dots. Everything looks too unified and well-blended. That\u2019s what makes this larger-than-life masterpiece one of the most famous landscape paintings. A personal favorite detail is the well-dressed woman in the foreground walking her pet monkey on a leash. While you might not be able to take your monkey or other exotic pets to the park anymore, you can still visit the very spot depicted in this painting.<br><br><em>A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte<\/em> is set along a small stretch of green parkland at the island\u2019s northwestern tip, facing the town of Courbevoie. It was where wealthy 19th-century Parisians retreated to when they grew tired of Paris\u2019s urban bustle. Today, well\u2026 thanks to a number of celebrity residents on the island, it\u2019s pretty much still used for the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"5-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa-18301831-katsushika-hokusai\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>5.<\/strong><em><strong> The Great Wave off Kanagawa<\/strong><\/em><strong> (1830\u20131831) \u2013 Katsushika Hokusai<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Great-Wave-off-Kanagawa.jpg\" alt=\"The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1830\u20131831) \u2013 Katsushika Hokusai\" class=\"wp-image-231616\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), from the series &#8220;Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji&#8221; (&#8220;Fugaku Sanjurokkei&#8221;)<\/em>, 1830 -1833. Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artwork\/katsushika-hokusai-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa-kanagawa-oki-nami-ura-from-the-series-thirty-six-views-of-mount-fuji-fugaku-sanjurokkei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Artsy<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Current painting location:<\/strong> numerous original impressions of the print are in museum collections around the world, including Tokyo National Museum, Japan Ukiyo-e Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and in Claude Monet&#8217;s Giverny home.<br><br>In a world dominated by the Western canon, non-European art often takes a backseat. However, one of East Asia\u2019s prevailing artworks is Hokusai\u2019s <em>Great Wave off Kanagawa<\/em>. This woodblock print is actually part of a series titled <em>Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Sanju-roku Kei)<\/em>.<br><br>Hokusai was born in Edo, or present-day Tokyo, and trained in the Ukiyo-e style, which translates into \u2018pictures of the floating world\u2019. In its simplest sense, it\u2019s a crossover between folklore, idealized scenes, travel landscapes, and nature. These were elements that pointed towards the hedonistic lifestyle enjoyed by Japan\u2019s newly wealthy. Ukiyo-e became central in forming the western perspective of Japanese art. The French ascribed the term \u2018Japonism\u2019 to the phenomenon, and the style was highly influential in the works of early Impressionists such as Morisot, Degas, Manet, and Monet, as well as Post-Impressionists such as Van Gogh, and Art Nouveau artists like <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/quarantine-and-the-art-of-being-alone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toulouse-Lautrec<\/a>.<br><br><em>The Great Wave off Kanagawa<\/em> is the most globally emblematic work to come out of the Ukiyo-e style (if <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/nl.pinterest.com\/search\/pins\/?rs=ac&amp;len=2&amp;q=the%20great%20wave%20tattoo&amp;eq=the%20great%20wa&amp;etslf=8873&amp;term_meta[]=the%20great%20wave%20tattoo%7Cautocomplete%7C4\" target=\"_blank\">tattoos<\/a> are any measure to go by). It depicts three boats being threatened by a large, rogue wave while Mount Fuji sinks into the backdrop of the violent ocean. Despite its popularity, there is still some debate as to where exactly the scene was set for this beautiful landscape painting. The obvious answer would be, \u2018off Kanagawa\u2019, but scholars and critics disagree about the exact location. The widely accepted guess is, as the name indicates, in the Kanagawa prefecture. Things might look different today thanks to Japan\u2019s rapid modernization, but just keep Mt. Fuji to your northwest, the bay of Sagami to the south, and the bay of Tokyo to the east, to get one of Hokusai\u2019s 36 views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"6-christinas-world-1948-andrew-wyeth\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>6. <\/strong><em><strong>Christina\u2019s World<\/strong><\/em><strong> (1948) \u2013 Andrew Wyeth<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Christinas-World.jpg\" alt=\"Christina\u2019s World (1948) \u2013 Andrew Wyeth\" class=\"wp-image-231617\" style=\"width:1000px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Christina&#8217;s World, 1948,<\/em> 121\u00d782 cm by Andrew Wyeth. Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/arthive.com\/andrewwyeth\/works\/221889~Christinas_World\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arthive.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Current painting location: <\/strong>MoMA, New York<br><br>Speaking of landscape paintings by famous artists, the image of a pale, young woman lying in a grassy field against the stark landscape of a coastal Maine farm is one of the great American paintings. Wyeth\u2019s <em>Christina\u2019s World<\/em> is considered to be one of the most famous landscape paintings to emerge out of the 20th-century American Realism genre.<br><br>Equal parts eerie and serene, the artist rendered all the elements in the composition to feed into the beholder\u2019s gaze. From the woman\u2019s tense pose, to the main house that seems to have caught her attention, and the curved line where the short and tall grass meets that leads our gaze back to the woman, every part of this famous nature painting is in perpetual motion and feels lived-in. And that\u2019s because Wyeth did live here.<br><br>The woman in the painting is Anna Christina Olson, Wyeth\u2019s neighbor, and the farm in the background is her family home in Maine. As a young girl, Olson developed a degenerative muscle condition \u2013 possibly polio \u2013 that left her unable to walk. Olson, however, refused to use a wheelchair, preferring to crawl down and up the field instead. One day, inspiration struck Wyeth and he sketched the scene as he saw it. However, Olson was 55 at the time, so Wyeth used his wife Betsy as a stand-in \u2013 hence Christina\u2019s youthful frame.<br><br>The painting is detailed in ways that we\u2019re still discovering. Wyeth put great thought into the subject and her surroundings. He captured Christina\u2019s nervous energy, and said that \u201cthe challenge [was] to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless.\u201d It is more psychological than landscape.<br><br>Today, you can step into Christina\u2019s world in New England\u2019s windswept, austere farmland. The Olson House as seen in the background of Wyeth\u2019s painting can be found in Cushing, Maine. Christina is long gone, and the Farnsworth Art Museum owns the property now, which means it\u2019s open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"7-wanderer-above-the-sea-of-fog-1818-caspar-david-friedrich\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>7. <\/strong><em><strong>Wanderer above the Sea of Fog <\/strong><\/em><strong>(1818) \u2013 Caspar David Friedrich<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Wanderer-above-the-Sea-of-Fog.jpg\" alt=\"Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818) \u2013 Caspar David Friedrich\" class=\"wp-image-231618\" style=\"width:1000px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Mysteries behind Caspar David Friedrich&#8217;s \u201cWanderer above the Sea of Fog\u201d. <\/em>Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-unraveling-mysteries-caspar-david-friedrichs-wanderer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Artsy<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Current painting location: <\/strong>Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg<br><br>Another beautiful landscape painting is the atmospheric panorama of a man standing alone on a rocky precipice, gazing out over a mysterious sea of fog. It\u2019s by 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich.<br><br>Much like Turner, Friedrich merged landscapes with the Sublime, creating something that was larger and more intense than our field of vision. His emotive canvases often featured the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/R%C3%BCckenfigur\" target=\"_blank\">R\u00fcckenfigur<\/a>, a person seen from behind. Through this faceless figure, we see the imposing potential of nature as idealized by the human mind.<br><br>Friedrich said, &#8220;The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him.\u201d <em>Wanderer above the Sea of Fog<\/em> is a mountaineer\u2019s dream \u2013 to stand above the horizon where so few have stood, and stare down at the dangerous and beautiful path that was trodden. It\u2019s a concept that had barely existed in the early 1800s.<br><br>To get Friedrich\u2019s vantage point, head to the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in Saxony and Bohemia. Hike through the countryside until you reach the top of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kaiserkrone_(hill)\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiserkrone<\/a>, and face the hill in the far right, the Zirkelstein. It might not be as how Friedrich painted it, but remember to use your wanderer\u2019s eyes to see as the Romantics did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"8-the-scream-1893-edvard-munch\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>8. <\/strong><em><strong>The Scream<\/strong><\/em><strong> (1893) \u2013 Edvard Munch<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/the-scream.jpg\" alt=\"The Scream (1893) \u2013 Edvard Munch\" class=\"wp-image-231619\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Scream, 1893 by Edvard Munch<\/em>. Photo via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edvardmunch.org\/the-scream.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">edvardmunch<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Current painting location:<\/strong> National Gallery and Munch Museum, Oslo<br><br>While <em>The Scream<\/em> isn\u2019t naturally categorized as a famous landscape painting, Munch did render the background to be one of the most iconic physical and psychological landscapes in art. Everything from the claustrophobic framing of the subjects and the way the fjord dissolves into the blood-red sky speaks volumes about Munch\u2019s mental state at the time.<br><br>Munch was a man with a traumatic past, one which would haunt him for the rest of his life. He had experienced alcoholism, loss, and hospitalization. <em>The Scream<\/em> was painted sometime after his sister was committed to a lunatic asylum. Before this, he had lost another one of his sisters to tuberculosis. On the day that Munch was inspired to paint <em>The Scream<\/em>, he was out walking with his friends on a road similar to the one in the painting.<br><br>He described the moment that followed as if becoming physically detached and hyper-aware of nature\u2019s true state: \u201cI felt tired and ill. I stopped and looked out over the fjord \u2013 the sun was setting, and the clouds turning blood red. I sensed a scream passing through nature; it seemed to me that I heard the scream. I painted this picture, painted the clouds as actual blood. The color shrieked.\u201d<br><br>Munch\u2019s work was not well-received in his lifetime. He strayed too far from convention and represented the invisibles of society. Now, he is the pride of Norway. Some 100 years later, you can walk on the very same path that Munch did when he was incited to paint this terrifying and famous nature painting. It was set on an overlook (not a bridge or pier, as it\u2019s often assumed) in Valhallveien Road on Ekeberg Hill, Oslo. The path is marked by a copper plaque that says <em>\u2018Skrik\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"9-black-mesa-landscape-new-mexicoout-back-of-maries-ii-1930-georgia-okeeffe\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>9. <\/strong><em><strong>Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico\/Out Back of Marie&#8217;s II<\/strong><\/em><strong> (1930) \u2013 Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/OKeeffe-Black-Mesa-Landscape.jpg\" alt=\"Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico\/Out Back of Marie's II (1930) \u2013 Georgia O'Keeffe\" class=\"wp-image-231620\" style=\"width:1000px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><em>Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico\/Out Back of Marie&#8217;s II<\/em> (1930) \u2013 Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe<\/em>. Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/picturingtheamericas.org\/painting\/black-mesa-landscape-new-mexico-out-back-of-maries-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Picturing the Americas<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Current painting location:<\/strong> Tate Modern, London<br><br>The Mother of American Modernism painted more than close-ups of vulva-shaped flowers and colorful swathes of blooms. She captured the wild, unrestrained aura of female identity in the scenes around her as well. Her beautiful landscape paintings are often overlooked, as her flowers tend to take center stage.<br><br>During her tumultuous relationship with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, O\u2019Keeffe painted gloomy, vertical urban scenes of her life in New York. These paintings drew inspiration from Stieglitz\u2019s urban photography. Later in her life, she discovered her love for the New Mexican landscape. The open, sunbleached plateaus and rugged landscapes beckoned her, and eventually she made a home in Abiqui\u00fa, near the Badlands.<br><br>She spent most of her time exploring this different world, collecting rocks and animal bones from the desert, making them the subject of her work and architectural elements of her home. Here, O\u2019Keeffe created some of her most famous landscape paintings, one of them being <em>Black Mesa Landscape.<\/em><br><br>Unlike most landscape paintings by famous artists, <em>Black Mesa Landscape<\/em> departs from the traditional representations of landscapes. Her framing is uniquely modern \u2013 O\u2019Keeffe isolated a single section of the mountains, plucking them out from the desert\u2019s vastness. This smaller, narrower frame allows us to focus inward rather than on the totality of the landscape. Special attention is shown to the colors; the cold and warm tones contrast with each other, simultaneously pushing and pulling the viewer. There are soft curves and dramatic folds of land, evocative of flowing water and crinkled fabric. This juxtaposition of opposing elements is characteristic of the dichotomies often found in O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s work.<br><br><em>Black Mesa Landscape<\/em> is the Rio Grande Valley through a Modernist\u2019s eyes. O\u2019Keeffe painted from her friend Marie Tudor Garland\u2019s ranch, and this sun-beaten land inspired dozens of her paintings over the next two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"10-looking-down-yosemite-valley-1865-albert-bierstadt\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>10. Looking Down Yosemite Valley (1865) \u2013 Albert Bierstadt<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/albert_bierstadt-looking_down_yosemite_valley-_california-1865-obelisk-art-history-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Looking Down Yosemite Valley (1865) \u2013 Albert Bierstadt\" class=\"wp-image-231621\" style=\"width:1000px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Looking Down Yosemite Valley (1865) \u2013 Albert Bierstadt. <\/em>Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthistoryproject.com\/artists\/albert-bierstadt\/looking-down-yosemite-valley-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Art History Project<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Current painting location:<\/strong> Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama<br><br>Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter who made famous landscape paintings of the sweeping American West. He trained in the Hudson River School, which was closely modeled after Romanticism but was called Luminism instead. Unlike Turner and Friedrich\u2019s Sublime which used visible brush strokes and sometimes chaotic elements to create a beautiful landscape painting, American Luminism was about concealment of method and aimed to convey tranquility and softness.<br><br>Bierstadt joined many Westward Expansion expeditions and painted scenes of the early American wilderness along the way. Some of his most captivating works are those of the mountains before they were national parks and holiday destinations. His epic landscapes sometimes came under criticism for using excessive light and dramatic elements, and his portrayal of Native Americans was deemed too empathetic and esteemed. It was no wonder that he fell out of favor with society and art patrons.<br><br>However, Bierstadt\u2019s work helped spark love and appreciation for the great outdoors. His monumental painting of the sun setting over Yosemite Valley will inspire wanderlust in even the most urban-loving city-dwellers. It\u2019s large too \u2013 one of Bierstadt\u2019s biggest canvases in fact, measuring in at 1.6 x 2.5 meters. The size of the painting was perhaps to do justice to Bierstadt\u2019s experience of the phenomenon. Yosemite Valley continues to be a source of wonder and beauty to almost everyone who sets eyes on it. It\u2019s a pilgrimage site for nature lovers and especially outdoor climbers who are fascinated by El Cap\u2019s awe-inspiring routes, like the treacherous Nose, the historic Salath\u00e9 Wall, and the Dawn Wall which catches the first light of day. Though it was created 155 years ago, this famous nature painting is still relevant in capturing the timeless mood of Yosemite.<br><br>To stand in the spot that Bierstadt did when creating this beautiful landscape painting, head to Yosemite Valley just before sunset. Bierstadt painted the view from a vantage point just above the Merced River, looking west. Keep the massive slab of rock that is El Capitan to your right, and the towering Sentinel Rock to your left; the spire of Middle Cathedral Rock should be visible in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"bonus-tip-find-your-own-famous-landscape-painting-in-suprematism\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bonus tip: Find your own famous landscape painting in Suprematism<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/malevich_black_square.jpg\" alt=\"Kazimir Malevich\u2019s Black Square (1913). \nFind your own famous landscape painting in Suprematism\" class=\"wp-image-231622\" style=\"width:1023px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Kazimir Malevich at Tate Modern. <\/em>Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/fisunguner.com\/malevich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fisun Guner<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Liberate yourself from the clearly defined limitations of traditional landscape representations and gaze into the elemental infinity afforded by the art of the Avant Garde. Take a painting, like Kazimir Malevich\u2019s <em>Black Square <\/em>(1913) for example, and closely examine your own complicity in the meaning-making process of art.<br><br>Landscape or no landscape, notice how the differing exchange of cultural capital has broken society into an insignificant accumulation of empty signs. Is this more representative of the iconic landscapes of our times?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"already-got-an-eyeful-of-beautiful-landscape-paintings-have-your-fill-of-famous-food-paintings-by-checking-out-our-tasty-take-on-the-culinary-arts-the-worlds-top-10-famous-food-paintings\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Already got an eyeful of beautiful landscape paintings? <\/strong>Have your fill of famous food paintings by checking out our tasty take on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/famous-food-paintings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Culinary Arts: The World\u2019s Top 10 Famous Food Paintings<\/a>.<\/h4>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From contemplative abstractions to sweeping wilderness, these famous landscape paintings are a record of society\u2019s ever-changing perceptions of the natural world. 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