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  1. Landscape Painting

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    The advent of photography in the mid-19th century challenged the documentary role of landscape painting. In response, movements like Impressionism turned away from detailed realism to capture momentary perceptions of light and atmosphere. Later, modern art movements used landscape as a vehicle for subjective expression.
    The Fauves used arbitrary, non-local color to express inner feeling, detaching the painted landscape from observable reality. Abstract Expressionists, while seemingly abandoning nature entirely,…