This article is aimed at presenting some introductory remarks on the possibility and the need for dialogue between the pictorial language and the scientific speech in geography. For such, it presents some elements used in the painting of images based on both semiotics and the Gestalt theory, analyzed by Fayga Ostrower and Donis Dondis. The interpretative exercise happens thanks to the landscape concept applied to the images created artistically by great painters from history.This exercise contextualizes these images considering both the technical and technological elements which existed at the time and place where they were produced and how these elements interfered in the processes of creating and interpreting theses masterpieces. To illustrate this, we have used four paintings from different periods, from the medieval Europe time to the modern world, hence introducing the general aspects which led to a change in the spatial reading of the territory produced after the consolidation of an urban, industrial world based in a merchandizing logic.
geography; painting; language; image; landscape
