evolution

Landscape painter when graduates or evolves to higher maturity, he shifts to more serious genres. Means more thought provoking or more spontaneous!? It is usually abstract or conceptual art. Now we ask why? Why this transition and why subtle contempt of those who cant make this transition? Reasons seem obvious. Those who keep doing pretty pictures are from their work proving themselves mediocre thinkers and they are majority! Given due respect for skill, they most of the times show a lack of thought and more importantly imagination. And out of vast number of painters who go beyond this not many show this talent or yearning to continue with landscape... they graduate to other forms. And in my humble opinion it will be immensely helpful to art of landscape and other landscape artists if they continue experimenting in landscape. By their work they may help bring about landscape evolution! They owe it to landscape... like an alma matter. But scene looks bleak. Overall art world puts the blame on landscape not on artists. And they may not be wrong. Finally quality of artists decide quality of genre. Why we dont take up the challange? On thinking I find another trend. Many good artists paint two genres at the same time. They make great attempts at strides in abstract or conceptual and achieve great standards. Yet when they revert to landscape side by side, it is same stuff all others churn out. Or same repeatation of what they did before. One gets a feel on interaction that they have firm opinions. Landscape is beautiful this way. This is how landscape is supposed to be. Very disappointing! No one insists that you call abstracts as landscape, as few try to. But why people like Ram Kumar are so few? And why we idolize Turner but dont aspire to do like him? Not copying but paint as per our times what he did then? Because few think doing similar stuff now like he did then, is still revolutionary!  And finally art lovers are also moulded in believing in this myth and assumptions of what constitutes a landscape.... This is not landscape! ! A line commonly heard give a pride to artist but then those rare ones have to pursue and announce... this too can be a landscape!