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?

Silverpoint is a. a technique using the blackish residue of impure carbon obtained by removing water from animal and vegetation substances. b. a technique involving the use of a metal point, and a thin silver wire, popular in the 14th and 15th centuries. c. a printmaking technique born from crayon manner that imitates the appearance of chalk lines. d. a technique used since the 16th century involving a stick filled with either colored or black graphite, a heated mixture of carbon and clay