Landscape art is one of the most common genres of art seen throughout the world. It became immensely popular in the early 15th century, mainly around Europe and most likely stems from the human need to commune with nature. This same need keeps people collecting and appreciating landscape art even to this day, especially with such a large variety to choose from and so many places from which to buy such pieces. Many galleries, even those online, such as Imagekind, showcase and sell prints with as varying themes as winter landscape art, Renaissance landscape art, and even Tuscan landscape art.

Although landscape art has to include certain components, namely the environment or land, artists have found a great many ways to create their artwork in different manners. One can find many watercolors, oil paintings and charcoal drawings of landscapes, but there are also other mediums to be found, such as photography and sculpture. As long as there are thematic items such as mountain ranges, forests, trees, grandiose valleys, cascading waterfalls, rushing rivers, or even a trickling stream, there are many ways to go about making a piece of landscape art.

Thomas Cole was an American painter, born in England, who lived during the early to mid 19th century and was intricately involved in the famous Hudson River School of landscape art. This group of painters sought to bring realism, idealism, and romanticism to the art of landscape painting. One of Cole’s most famous works, The Course of Empire, was a series of paintings that he was commissioned to create a society’s evolution and, eventually, its demise. Cole’s landscape paintings depicted perfectly the ideals that the new country was holding to in the 1800's, romanticism and idealism.

One of the most commonly seen modern photographers involved in landscape art is Ansel Adams, whose haunting black and white picture, entitled Moon and Halfdome, can be found in many galleries such as Imagekind. One of Adams’ skills as a photographer is his incredible use of perspective and shadowing. A wish to be closer to nature can most definitely be fulfilled by experiencing one of his brilliant photographs.