Read the article about the history of landscape painting, and view the selected examples of landscape paintings. Then write a 1-2 paragraph response to the questions below: What similarities do you notice across these paintings? What differences do you notice?
What choices do artists make when they create landscape paintings? What is the impact of these choices?

photography had emerged as an elite art pursued by a few creative individuals for a few wealthy patrons. but now, said bauldelaire, it was succumbing to "the great industrial madness of our times." it was becoming a mass production industry that catered to middle-class tastes, including a taste for gadgetry. the stereoscope, the first 3d imaging system, had turned looking at photographs into parlor entertainment. a "thousand hungry eyes were bending over the peepholes of the stereoscope as though they were the attic-windows of the infinite.