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The concept of landscape changes from things to impressions. Man first shows his

consciousness of nature when his art is still symbolic; and since nature is so vast

and inapprehensible he continues to treat her symbolically even after he has

achieved an almost scientific realism in the representation of plants and animals.

Flowers, leaves, individual trees, are all 'things ' which can be thought of

in isolation. Amountain is a 'thing' when its form is sufficiently egregious to mark

it off the range. From these individual elements the first landscapes are put together.

In the landscape of symbols the details are combined decoratively or

as expressive pattern. The fusion of these elements into a total impression is

achieved through the perception of light. From Leonardo to Seurat , as well as

critics, have maintained that the rendering of light is part of the science

of painting........Now it was this mystical sense of the unity of creation expressed

by light and atmosphere which , however unconsciuosly, provided a basis of

pictorial unity for the impressionism; and the claims to science, which they somtimes

felt called on to make in defence of their intuitions , were only a 19th -century way

of stating the same belief , for at that time sceince was still based on the assumption

of some underlying natural order - a belief that, as Pythagorial said,

nature is sure to act consistently in all her operations.

So landscape paintings, like all forms of art, was an act of faith.....

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