In the arts, a gloomy landscape or setting may be used to illustrate themes such as melancholy or poverty.

The light made the ordinarily gloomy landscape of Drevlin almost lovely.

Unlike those violent, gloomy landscapes that Lambert had painted so many years ago.

It transformed the gloomy landscape of her face like sun on a leaden lake.

The Queen gazed about her at the gloomy landscape.

In the winter Graciela's life was a dreary landscape, monotonous and gloomy.

Bodom's favored subjects were gloomy landscapes, lonely forest areas and mountain tarns.

The paintings are on the pretty side, but they suggest a stark and gloomy landscape (Johnson).

Once you're past pot, you face the gloomy landscape of hard drugs, along with newer chemical worries like Ecstasy.

And yet Ms. Lette struggles for hope within this rather gloomy sexual landscape.