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The transforming influence of human beings on their environment is captured by artists at different moments in the history of each country. A basic similarity can be seen in the desire to record changes for posterity, while differences occur in the specific interests and needs pursued by each culture. Cultural currents left their mark on landscape painting: the discovery of the ancient pyramids in the 19th century led to the practice of painters accompanying archeological expeditions, and the urban image began to be developed as a symbol of progress. The modernizing trends which saw the subjection of nature to the machine gave rise to a double-sided artistic view: on the one hand, works which extolled the benefits of such modernization; on the other, works which focussed on its destructive aspects.

Eugenio Landesio
El Valle de México desde el Cerro del Tenayo
ca.1870
Map : J7
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Patricia Tobacco Forrester
Clearing
1989
Map : ?
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