Aerial landscape art is painting or other visual art which depicts or evokes the appearance of a landscape as seen from above, usually from a considerable distance, as it might be viewed from an aircraft or spacecraft. Sometimes the art is based not on direct observation but on aerial photography, or on maps created using satellite imagery. Of course, this kind of landscape art hardly existed before the 20th century, with the advent of air travel and space flight. Famous or notable artists who created works variously inspired by aerial landscape include Kazimir Malevich, Georgia O'Keefe, Susan Crile, Jane Frank, Nancy Graves, Yvonne Jacquette, and Margret Dreikausen.

See also

• Aerial Photography
• Bird's-eye view

References

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Dreikausen, Margret, "Aerial Perception: The Earth as Seen from Aircraft and Spacecraft and Its Influence on Contemporary Art" (Associated University Presses: Cranbury, NJ; London, England; Mississauga, Ontario: 1985)

Faberman, Hilarie, "Aerial Muse : The Art of Yvonne Jacquette" (New York : Hudson Hills Press ; Stanford, Calif. : In Association with Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, 2002]

External links

• Information on Yvonne Jacquette at Askart.com

• Margret Dreikausen page (with color images), at The New School, New York

• "The Aerial View and Art" - essay by Ashley Warriner, from a page at the University of Tennessee website

Landscape art