"view painting" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone enjoying or taking in the sight of a painting. For example: "The art gallery was filled with visitors, all eager to view painting and sculptures from famous artists of the past."
The enormous bird's-eye view painting of Nachi Shrine captures the extensive natural and built environment of one of Japan's foremost sacred sites.
Franzmann offers another view, painting a portrait of two vulnerable children who have grown into vulnerable women, in and out of the prison system.
Moving from Giambattista's rarefied patrons to the souvenir-seeking Grand Tourist, and from the interiors of churches and palazzos to the everyday cityscape, the show segues into the "vedutismo" (view painting) of Canaletto and Francesco Guardi.
The reviewing committee decided that the export decision should be deferred because of the "outstanding aesthetic importance" of the work together with its significance to the study of Guardi's development, Venetian view painting and Grand Tour patronage and taste.
Prosecutors took a different view, painting a portrait of a corporate lawyer who saw trouble ahead from the Securities and Exchange Commission and subtly alerted the firm to take evasive action.
Guardi was in his forties by the time he began to manifest fully his own idiosyncratic style of view painting, and it is perhaps hardly surprising that with the rise of Neoclassicism, which coincided with the second half of his career, his "particular manner" found so little favor.
Richard Green, a modern- and contemporary-art dealer, has a Venetian view painted by Francesco Guardi priced at €1.5m ($1.95m).
"Chinon," a panoramic view painted on a monumental scale in 1987 is perhaps the most striking tribute paid by Mr. Richter to much admired predecessors.
The plunging view painted by the artist looking down at trees from the terrace of his house in Normandy was painted in 1923.
Will this beautiful view -- painted by Canaletto in the mid-18th century -- still be there at the end of the next millennium?
That view paints the network as the IOC's humble supplicant, competing against other networks for the organizing committee's coveted favor.
