Parting Clouds at Fields End, Stefan Berg, 2025 By Rebeccah Love From its earliest incarnations, landscape painting has been bound to the practical needs of society—engineers sketching blueprints for complex hydraulic systems in prehistoric communities, or rulers commissioning depictions of their expanding territories to assert control, divine authority, and power. As the centuries unfolded, these utilitarian beginnings gave way to new intentions: in the Netherlands, landscap
