Landscape Painting is a type of art universal to many cultures. This is especially the case in France, the Netherlands, Japan, North America, and Great Britain until the last part of the twentieth century as other forms of artistic representation until Surrealism and Cubism shifted the art world’s attention to the artists like Picasso and Dali. These days with the dawn of video and installations, landscape art is once again in demand because it represents a simpler and more pure form of artistic expression.

Landscape paintings have the power to express a sense of emotional resonance through the eyes of its creator. Cezanne spent most of his career during the mid 1800s, painting variations of the same landscape. It is due to his attention to detail, composition and lighting changes in his works that make his work relevant today. His constant and near obsessive drive to perfection work in painting the Sainte-Victoire mountain situated next to his home in Provence, France set a standard of excellence for every generation of landscape artists who followed. Cezanne’s contemporaries in 17th century Holland were the first European painters to paint their impressions of seascapes and the natural world that surrounded them. Another noted landscape painter during the time of Cezanne was JMW Turner. Turner was inspired a natural world unmastered by man, evidence of the power of God–a theme that artists and poets were exploring in this period. In his later period, Turner concentrated on the contrast of light on water and the brilliant radiance of the sun on the horizon. Although these late paintings appear to be 'impressionistic' and therefore a forerunner of the French school, Turner was striving for expression of the spiritual and the unknown.

One popular story about Turner, though it likely has little basis in reality, states that he even had himself "tied to the mast of a ship in order to experience the drama" of the elements during a storm at sea.

Another impressionistic painter, the French artist Claude Monet's developed his method for painting landscapes by also getting as close as possible to his subject matter by painting from a boat in order to represent lilies. American painters Homer and Wyeth, both famous landscape artists, were also noted for the venerable way they managed to represent the effect of light on water surfaces.

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