Evolution of Landscape Appreciation in the History of Landscape Painting and in the First Rememberance of Landscape

Abstract

It is important to clarify the evolution of the landscape appreciation in the ontogenetic process and in the phylogenetic's for the estimation of future preference on the landscape by human being. To find the first appreciation of landscape, the birth of landscape painting was examined in the history of painting and estimated at the Roman era in Europe and at the Former Han Dynasty in China. It proves the simultaneous phylogenetic evolution of landscape appreciation in the different cultural spheres. To find the evolution of the ontogenetic process, the first memory of the natural landscape in their lives were examined using the questionnaire survey to the landscape photographers. More than a half of respondents could remember the memory until 16 years old and could draw the image until 18 years old. The image showed the evolution process of the landscape appreciation from the prospect-refuge type at the primary stage to the advanced panoramic type with distant objects. Both results concluded the longer period of landscape experiences to breed the landscape appreciation of today.