Landscapes are a crucial aspect of a human being’s memories, emotions and psychological desires. It is through the memories provided by landscapes that individuals have gone back to their pasts and reckon their emotions as they observed the specific scenes; such experiences are important in finding inner peace or when seeking solutions to other needs. Many writers, including Wordsworth and Dorothea, integrated such meditative power and healing experiences offered by landscapes to the individual or group. Alan De Botton elucidates on the association between landscape and the memories that they trigger or represent both immediately and in later life in his book The Art of Travel. De Botton also explores the desire of human beings to reflect and capture landscapes through simple methods such as drawing and…show more content… The Flaubert chapter provides a vivid representation of the lithographs of Cairo, paintings from diverse archaic periods, photographs of transport systems, and various landscapes. The urban representation by Hopper where there exist social disintegration, isolation, and alienation between persons stands in contrast to the sublime and pastoral scenes depicted in the romantic epoch or from those of impressionists such as Van Gogh. ‘The River Wye at Tintem Abbey’ by Loutherbourg denotes the majestic and calm nature of the harmonious relationship between man and animals. The image of a shepherd with the cows and the peacefulness with the surrounding landscape is an illustration of the ‘redemptive power of nature’; the link between the three parties acts as relieve to the urban scene when it appears in the memory. The relationship between the sublime and man is very clear in De Loutherbourg artistic impression with the figures of the foreground, and the outstretched held hands while experiencing the landscape’s overwhelming
