What do you think makes a good landscape painting?

Question: What do you think should go into it? Architecture? trees? disasters? streams, planes? What do you think makes a good landscape painting? I know as an artist, it's my own interpretation of what a good painting is. That's not why I posed this question. I want to know YOUR and other people's ideas of what an interesting landscape painting looks like.

Answer: To be honest, landscapes are not my favorite. I am more into the figure. However, landscape paintings that I have found interesting were often abstract. They used color, line, and form to give you a sense of landscape. They evoked a feeling of open and expansive space. They had a sense of vastness eventhough they were only two dimensional. The West Coast landscape artists (like Richard Diebenkorn) are probably my favorite.

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