Namatjira earned widespread acclaim for his vivid landscape paintings of the central Australian desert.

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These are astonishingly opulent, with four-poster beds, deep armchairs, large fireplaces and artwork ranging from tribal sculptures to contemporary African landscape paintings.

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The couple's intent demeanor, as they sit in front of one of Mr. Hockney's landscape paintings on an easel, is compounded by the fact that the Brandts are watching their own portrait being made, that Mr. Hockney is watching them, and that we are watching the lot of them.

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Cochran also explores the relationship between individuals and the urban landscape, which has led to paintings of buildings sprouting from heads -- one of which can be seen in this Sam Taylor-Wood directed REM video.

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The labels are informative little essays nicely placed like slanted tabletops, below sightline. (The cartoonish icons for the audio guide, however, are inexplicably placed right next to the paintings on the wall.) And the subtopics landscape and portraiture, what was painted overseas versus what was created back home in America, etc.

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Arriving in New York as the skyscrapers were going up and the excavation of two city blocks for Pennsylvania Station began, Bellows thrilled to the dynamism and enormous scale of these undertakings his seven paintings of the making of Penn Station show him engaging with landscape, the dramatic lighting effects of working at night, and handling crowds.

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After visiting The Lowry himself, Tunick was intrigued the paintings of LS Lowry which, he said, illustrated the vulnerability of life in a rough city landscape.

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