Beautiful Landscape Wallpapers

The word landscape as most westerners use it is completely rooted in Western notions of the earth, nature and art. Usually, only conceived in terms of an emerging post-Renaissance dichotomy of nature vs. culture and pristine vs. mundane and contaminated. Alternatively, the genesis of the western concept of landscape is tied to the discovery of linear perspective and cartography. Not true, however, that the understanding of the landscape, even within Western culture, are necessarily built around the concepts of untouched nature or which locate the observer outside of the image, the landscape. For many people, the dense mesh of buildings in the city is its landscape and its art can reflect this. For others, human intervention in the natural world can be seen as the ideal environment and viewing pleasure can be caused by views of cleared tracts of desert juxtaposed with threats. The current word is derived from the Dutch landscape, Landschaft Landschap or German for a beam, a piece of cultivated land, some small-scale corresponds to a perception of farmers, a mere fragment of a feud, a box in a landscape Breugel. This use is outdated by the eleventh century, replaced by the words that corresponded to the wider political spaces those with power - territoire, pays domain. And then in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it re-emerged, tightly tied to a particular way of seeing, a particular experience, either in pictures, extolling nature or landscaping an estate. Through tracing the history of the term, we see that even in the realm of art that is linked to politics and power of conceptual organization, ownership and perspective. That landscape painting as a form of representation was established in 15th century Italy and Flanders was due to the new politics of vision. In fact, the landscape, whether used to describe a genre of painting or the world we are located within, is never empty, not just Vista. And, just as significant as ever, only experienced visually. Landscape refers to the distribution in terms of land area and its visual representation, particularly as represented by the members of the community of paint. The landscape of time, even in terms of physical sense involves visual interpretation of the configuration in terms of land, because that is the main way in terms of a landscape is perceived.