The themes can be figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, and the techniques can be divided into figurative painting and freehand painting.

题材可分人物、山水、花鸟等，技法可分具象和写意。

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Instead of painting what they saw, they painted the landscapes from their imagination.

他们并非画其所见，而是依据他们的想象来画风景。

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My own Chinese education was defective in that I had assumed that the vast, sparely rugged landscapes of classical Chinese painting were more spiritual lesson than a faithful rendering of place.

我自己的中国学问并不完善，因为我曾以为，中国古典绘画中广袤平坦的风景，比忠实地描绘一个地方的手法更具精神层面的意义。

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And he was a painter, and he was painting landscapes of the Chechen countryside, and they were absolutely beautiful.

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But the collection's strength is American painting to 1945, and it boasts one of the greatest American landscapes ever painted, Frederic Edwin Church's "Niagara" (1857).

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Mr. Graves also took up painting a few years ago, and the walls of his studio are crowded with self-portraits and landscapes, many of which depict rows of poplars much like those that line the driveway to his house.

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