An example of artistic depiction of an aerial landscape: Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank, 1918-1986), "Aerial Series: Ploughed Fields, Maryland", 1974, acrylic and mixed materials on apertured double canvas, 52"x48".

Aerial landscape art is painting or other visual art which depicts or evokes the appearance of a landscape as seen from above, usually from a considerable distance, as it might be viewed from an aircraft or spacecraft. Sometimes the art is based not on direct observation but on aerial photography, or on maps created using satellite imagery. Of course, this kind of landscape art hardly existed before the 20th century, with the advent of air travel and space flight. Famous or notable artists who created works variously inspired by aerial landscape include Kazimir Malevich, Georgia O'Keefe, Susan Crile, Jane Frank, Yvonne Jacquette, and Nancy Graves. Malevich, who wrote extensively on the aesthetics and philosophy of modern art, identified the aerial landscape (especially the "bird's-eye view", looking straight down, as opposed to an oblique angle) as a genuinely new and radicalizing paradigm in the art of the twentieth century. The artist Jane Frank (or Jane Schenthal Frank) was born Jane Babette Schenthal on July 25,1918, in Baltimore, Maryland. ... The Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable artistic paintings in the Western world. ... Many times, the term art is used to refer to the visual arts. ... The Harvesters, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1565: Peace and agriculture in a pre-Romantic ideal landscape, without sublime terrors Landscape near Bologna, by Frans Koppelaar, 2001: Realistic landscape painted after nature Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers and forests. ... An Airbus A380, currently the worlds largest airliner An aircraft is any vehicle or craft capable of atmospheric flight. ... A spacecraft is a vehicle, vessel, craft or device designed to operate beyond the surface of the Earth in outer space. ... The Georgian terrace of Royal Crescent (Bath, England) from a hot air balloon Dulles Airport in Reston, Virginia, from an airplane Intersection of E42 and E451 as seen from a Lufthansa Boeing 747 soon after takeoff from Frankfurt International Airport Moreton Island in Queensland, Australia Aerial photography is the taking... MAPS could refer to: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Mail Abuse Prevention System Multi-jurisdictional Automated Preclearance System This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made from artificial satellites. ... The Harvesters, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1565: Peace and agriculture in a pre-Romantic ideal landscape, without sublime terrors Landscape near Bologna, by Frans Koppelaar, 2001: Realistic landscape painted after nature Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers and forests. ... This article refers to the tool of travel. ... Currently, the most common technology for space transport is rocket propulsion, which expels matter to provide a net forward thrust. ... Self-portrait, 1933 (detail) Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (Казимир Северинович Малевич, Polish Malewicz, Ukrainian transliteration Malevych, German Kasimir Malewitsch), (February 23, 1878 – May 15, 1935) was a painter and art theoretician, pioneer of geometric abstract art and one of the most important members of the Russian avant-garde. ... Georgia O’Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950 Georgia OKeeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. ... The artist Jane Frank (or Jane Schenthal Frank) was born Jane Babette Schenthal on July 25,1918, in Baltimore, Maryland. ... Nancy Graves (1940-1995) was an American sculptor, painter, and sometimes filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon. ... Self-portrait, 1933 (detail) Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (Казимир Северинович Малевич, Polish Malewicz, Ukrainian transliteration Malevych, German Kasimir Malewitsch), (February 23, 1878 – May 15, 1935) was a painter and art theoretician, pioneer of geometric abstract art and one of the most important members of the Russian avant-garde. ... Modern art is a general term used for most of the artistic production from the late 19th century until approximately the 1970s. ... Photograph of a landscape A landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including physical elements such as landforms, living elements of flora and fauna, abstract elements such as lighting and weather conditions, and human elements, for instance human activity or the built environment. ... Rio de Janeiro birds-eye view. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar (often from (1900 to 1999 in common usage). ...

Unlike traditional landscapes, aerial landscapes often do not include any view of a horizon or sky, nor in such cases is there any recession of the view into an infinite distance. Additionally, there is a natural kinship between aerial landscape painting and abstract painting, not only because familar objects are sometimes difficult to recognize when viewed aerially, but because there is no natural "up" or "down" orientation in the painting: often it seems that, like a work of abstract expressionism, the painting might just as well be hung upside down or sideways (the painting pictured at right is one such example). Furthermore, as in a Jackson Pollock or a Mark Tobey, such images often have an "all over" distribution of interest that defies any attempt to decide on a "correct" orientation or a focal point. The Harvesters, by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1565: Peace and agriculture in a pre-Romantic ideal landscape, without sublime terrors Landscape near Bologna, by Frans Koppelaar, 2001: Realistic landscape painted after nature Landscape art depicts scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers and forests. ... Horizon. ... A typical daytime sky. ... Black square by Kazimir Malevich Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational or subjective way. ... The Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable artistic paintings in the Western world. ... This USPS stamp illustrates Pollocks drip technique. ... Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement. ... Mark Tobey (December 11, 1890 – April 24, 1976) was an American abstract painter. ...

The aerial cloudscapes painted by Georgia O'Keefe in the 1960s and 1970s are an interesting case. They are generally, strictly speaking, not landscapes at all, since they show the clouds from above, suspended in blue sky, with the land below nowhere to be seen: it is the view of clouds seen at a downward and sideways angle, as from the window of an airplane. These paintings typically depict a kind of "pseudo-horizon," formed not where land meets sky but where the suspended layer of clouds - a "pseudo-ground" - meets the empty upper sky. See the external link below for an image of O'Keefe's gigantic 1965 aerial cloudscape entitled "Sky Above Clouds IV", housed at the Art Institute of Chicago. IBM Cloudscape (now open sourced as Apache Derby) is a pure, open source-based Java Relational Database Management System that can be embedded in Java programs and used for online transaction processing (OLTP). ... Georgia O’Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950 Georgia OKeeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. ... Photograph of a landscape A landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including physical elements such as landforms, living elements of flora and fauna, abstract elements such as lighting and weather conditions, and human elements, for instance human activity or the built environment. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the premier art educational facilities in the United States. ...

See also

• Aerial perspective
• Aerial perspective (disambiguation)
• Aerial photography
• Aerial view
• Bird's-eye view
• Cloudscape (art)
• Kazimir Malevich
• Landscape art
• Top-down perspective

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References

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• Dreikausen, Margret, "Aerial Perception: The Earth as Seen from Aircraft and Spacecraft and Its Influence on Contemporary Art" (Associated University Presses: Cranbury, NJ; London, England; Mississauga, Ontario: 1985) ISBN 0879820403

• Faberman, Hilarie, "Aerial Muse : The Art of Yvonne Jacquette" (New York : Hudson Hills Press ; Stanford, Calif. : In Association with Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, 2002) ISBN 1555951570

• Yoseloff, Thomas, Jane Frank : a Retrospective Exhibition (New York : A.S. Barnes, 1975) [exhibition catalogue] OCLC: 2651512

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External links

• Information on Yvonne Jacquette at Askart.com

• Margret Dreikausen page (with color images), at The New School, New York

• "The Aerial View and Art" - essay by Ashley Warriner, from a page at the University of Tennessee website

• COLOR IMAGE of aerial painting by Georgia O'Keeffe: "Sky Above Clouds IV" (1965; oil on canvas; 8 x 24 ft.; Art Institute of Chicago)