Abstract art movement has always looked to pry on the fleeting concept of reality. It believes in tracking this illusory theme through visual dynamics without referring to a single norm in the world. Landscape paintings have looked to depict various natural objects and contoured them through enhancements and depressions to create an effect of breathtaking scenery. The marriage of these two niches of painting has brought forth the concept of abstract landscape paintings.



Today, people are also looking to delve into semi-abstract landscape paintings. There are various mediums and surfaces which can be experimented with. Such paintings bring us closer to the knowledge of geological underbelly which creates ripples on the surface of land. Geometrical stained glass on glass mosaics are quite a novel concept tried radically these days. The works beautifully combine the unshakeable precepts of geometry with secret science of abstraction. Such passionate works can be a welcome break from the traditional representations that painting can provide.

Landscape paintings can relate to various moods and objects. It can be about valleys, streams, river, forests and springs. It deals with perfect binding of contours so that the scenery gets a three dimensional feel. Abstraction in landscape has augmented the entire concept of the traditional landscape painting. It seeks line, form, color and orientation in what is largely an illustrative art form. This is a beautiful marriage of principles. Reflections of sunrise and sunset are one of the most attempted topics of abstract landscape painting art.

Sunlight falling on a tree creates shadows, shadow varies in length. These shadows are tracked in abstract landscape paintings and given a different meaning altogether. Further, the abstraction element can add a very different appearance to a single landscape. It's not about what it does; it's about how it does and performs it with a linear symmetry.

Abstract landscape does not see a natural image as valley or a tree. It sees it as shapes and colors. It tries to formulate a narrow peaked valley and dotted stream of small roads curving at a particular angle towards a linear path where simple landscape painter would have seen mere roads and valley criss-crossing each other. If one can ably search the patterns, rhythm ands orientation then he can seek the abstract within a mundane landscape. Colors and shapes can intermittently run smoothly and then break apart to give a sense of space and time to an abstract landscape frame.

Oil is the most proclaimed medium in trying abstract landscape paintings. Firstly it is the favorite of canvas. Linen canvas with primary coats does not stretch at all. This creates emphasis of texture and hence helps in contrasting texture with the oil medium to create a better impression of oil. Oil can look to create a welcome effect of layering which is quintessential in creating an abstract landscape. Acrylic is being used more and more today to provide the desired tone to abstraction.