Thank you so much martle and time_is_now for answering. This is a new name for me. He obviously lived during industrial revolution time (end of 19th century). He does use perspective, I think, though perhaps in a different way. His paintings remind me of Dutch painters of earlier time.
In music it is good to find shape of the piece and perspective of development. Rachmaninoff is known to have a specific point in each piece of music to which he built the whole piece.
As with painting, that does represent a rather particular set of aesthetic priorities (which some feminist critics might accuse of being too 'goal-oriented', and I, from a slightly different angle, would say places too great a value upon 'closure'). There is plenty of music old and new which does not operate so fundamentally in terms of such a teleological principle; just to limit to the last two centuries, Schubert, Chopin, Mussorgsky, Debussy or Feldman would be some examples.
