To capture the philosophical elements of a landscape painting, magnets are used to levitate objects to show that there is a force between everything in nature.
Yet landscape paintings are not just depictions of scenery, they are visual narratives designed to reflect personal, cultural, historical, and political ideas.
These pieces are ways the artists hope the modern day viewer will be able to experience what the Masters of the landscape paintings were trying to achieve.
You know, the popular thinking is that Loutherbourg was influenced by landscape painting, but why can't we say that the Eidophusikon actually influenced the painters?
It could include buildings in it, but often landscape paintings are of nature – of trees and lakes and hills and mountains and all of that sort of thing.