How to Look at and Understand Great Art Lectures Episode 20 Landscapes—Art of the Great Outdoors ( Air Date 2011-01-01 ) Genre Documentary category. Overview "In this lecture on landscape painting, observe the classical, balanced division into foreground, middle, and background, and how Romantic painters altered these proportions to express drama, infinite space, and the sublime. Discover proportion and composition in landscapes of the Hudson River school, Luminism, Impressionism, and also the subgenres of seascapes and cityscapes.".