Nature and art. Aspects and dilemmas of landscape painting

Abstract

Aesthetic choices were shaped in prehistory as a condition of survival. A tree in the savannah is an archetype of a belvedere. In agricultural societies a domesticated area is created which with time changes into a house with a garden. The development of horticulture, landscape architecture, significantly influenced the perception of a landscape. Beauty nowadays is the domain of advertizing. Sublimity and picturesqueness belong to tourism and architecture, not to the mainstream art. Perhaps a landscape can be a source of artistic inspiration after all?