Initially he was influenced by the emphasis on monumental landscapes of Tang painters.

Both are monumental landscapes, yet painted in such radically different styles as to present a useful illustration of how much art changed in the 50 years dividing their production.

Inness appears to have been trying to paint a monumental landscape using a very simple, down-to-earth subject.

The most charismatic pictures are a selection of boldly monumental, romantic landscapes, which have the moody eloquence (without the sentimentality) of Turner.

Swamp Maple (4:30), painted in Lincolnville, Maine, in 1968, is one of his largest landscapes in every sense-at once monumental and unstable, fast and slow, flat and deep, hard and soft, general and particular, observed and abstract.

Kano Eitoku developed a formula for the creation of monumental landscapes on the sliding doors enclosing a room.

Tim Saska, a Texas artist, records the more monumental landscapes, as in his "Grand Canyon Tapestry."

The monumental landscapes of Ansel Adams were another inspiration.

Having return to Georgia in 1927, Kakabadze continued his Imereti themes in new monumental decorative landscapes, including industrial landscapes.

After her first trip to Greenland in 1986 she gave up photographing the human form, shifting her lens toward the monumental landscapes and cultural/architectural icons for which she is renowned.