Landscape Artists - Painting the Town

The Art of the Built Environment

• These pages celebrate famous paintings of buildings, towns and cities.

• The artworks we have selected have been created by artists to communicate their feelings and ideas about the world we have constructed for ourselves.

• Artists paint their environment in a variety of different styles.

• Some paint in a naturalistic manner to reflect the visual beauty of the subject.

• Some edit elements of the scene to create an idealised version of the subject.

• Some edit elements of the scene for the compositional harmony of the picture.

• Some exaggerate or distort elements of the scene for expressive effect.

• Some paint scenes of total fantasy which are the constructs of their own imagination.