Most landscape painting guides focus on color mixing or brushstrokes. Lhote’s treatise focuses on . The Tratado del paisaje argues that a landscape painting is not a copy of a view, but a translation of a sensation into a formal language.

group, a branch of Cubism that favored mathematical rigor and the Golden Ratio. His treatise serves as a manual for what he called "reasoned painting"—a method where emotion is filtered through disciplined composition rather than raw instinct. Key themes in his treatise include: Geometric Reduction