Exploring Landscape Art: A Knowledge Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

for over a century after it was introduced into English the word "landscape" was only used for works of landscape art (example pictured).

the Reverend John Thomson, distinguished landscape painter and former minister of Duddingston Kirk, is often credited with originating the famous Scots adage "We’re a' Jock Tamson’s bairns".

the innovations of German art include the oldest sculpture of the human form and the first independent Western landscape paintings (example pictured).

the production of art in Wales was greatly stimulated by the 18th century fashion for the sublime in landscape painting.

after being sentenced to a 14-year deportation in 1845, Norwegian Knud Bull became a pioneer in Australian landscape painting.

Cleveland S. Rockwell (pictured) used the sketches he made during topographical survey expeditions for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as the basis for his landscape watercolor and oil paintings.

landscape painter George Arnald's most successful painting (pictured) was his only known work of maritime art.

landscape and portrait painter Herbert A. Collins (pictured) made several portraits of naturalist John Muir as well as paintings of the evolution of Yosemite Valley.

Nenets painter Konstantin Pankov had never seen a painting before he began painting landscapes of the Far North.

12,000 people paid 25 cents to view Frederic E. Church's The Heart of the Andes (pictured), a ten-foot-wide landscape painting exhibited in 1859.

Exploring Landscape Art: A Knowledge Quiz

1 Wilton, Andrew; T J Barringer; Tate Britain (Gallery); ________.; Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

2 Landscape painting has been called "China's greatest contribution to the art of the world", [20] and owes its special character to the ________ tradition in Chinese culture.

3 The German ________ had a distinctive style, influenced by his Danish training, where a distinct national style, drawing on the Dutch 17th-century example, had developed.

4 ________, Naked Playing People, 1910.

5 Tenshō Shūbun, a ________ monk, an early figure in the revival of Chinese styles in Japan.

6 We have rather more survivals from ________, from the 1st century BCE onwards, especially frescos of landscapes decorating rooms that have been preserved at Pompeii, Herculaneum and elsewhere, and mosaics.

7 [32] Yamato-e style of ________.

8 These appeared in the very long yamato-e scrolls of scenes illustrating the ________ and other subjects, mostly from the 12th and 13th centuries.

9 ________, c.

10 Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1882-1885, ________.

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