Landscape

Nature is the focal point of Landscape art including mountains, valleys, flowers, bodies of water, forests, fields, coasts, etc. Sometimes landscape art includes man-made structures or people. Urbanization changed landscape sceneries over the past century. This section includes both nature and urban landscapes that have inspired African artists. In terms of style, this genre started as representational but Claude Monet revolutionized it in the 19th century by the use of the impressionism movement. At the moment this style is usually categorized into three groups: representational, impressionistic, and abstract.