Dutch artist Tjalf Sparnaay spends a lot of time on his paintings. As proof, look at him spending a lot of time painting... While we don't want to ask the question "why didn't you just take photos?" ...

In the late 19th century, Swedish artist Gustaf Fjaestad painted his home country’s pine forests ... features 74 landscape paintings by Scandinavian and Canadian artists, all made between ...

In the age of surrealistic art, realistic ... The paintings in acrylic and oil paintings feature the plants and grasses which once used to add to the beauty of his village landscape.

Curator Sandra Firman says his realistic mode ... She says, "The Java paintings (those whose subject matter is taken from the area around his home in rural Java, N.Y.) often confuse domestic interiors ...

His figurative paintings, then, are less a record of an urban landscape and more a metaphor for the subjectivity of seeing.