Landscape

The Earth and nature are, and always have been, an immeasurable source of inspiration. This is particularly true of our most immediate surroundings. Every artist feels an attachment to their homeland, which they strive to depict by way of photographing, drawing, or painting the natural riches and the typical scenery of their environment. Art History demonstrates a range of approaches to landscapes across the centuries and the various artistic movements that spanned them.

Landscapes and nature are also recurrent religious themes: flora and fauna have special symbolism in Christianity. Landscapes take on many forms: realist, narrative, symbolic, idealist… each time, the artist is portraying his own relationship with nature. Some of the biggest masterpieces in painting are landscapes, it's impossible not to mention Van Gogh's Starry Night, Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire, Money's Sunrise, Giorgione's The Tempest. Almost all painters have dabbled in landscapes at some point, in forests, mountains, oceans, towns… the term itself holds an infinite number of possibilities.

Nature also provides a source of inspiration in the multitude of different visual and approaches available under the sensitive eye of the artist. Colours and landscapes are rich and varied, an infinite plurality. Nature is also a major theme in philosophy, in which the search for the truth – and knowing whether reality itself is truth – is at the heart of the work of all philosophers. Similarly, the theme of nature traverses the ages and artistic movements, inspiring every artist. The landscape links the artist to their past and their childhood, and their individual style then gives them free reign over their personal interpretation and representation of these lasting impressions.

A bewitching evening light, a hay stack, a sunflower field, or the flowing of a river, these are the moments familiar to all of us that artists continually choose to represent.

Nowadays in Contemporary Art, the landscape itself has become the medium. Land Art is a movement which utilises nature as materials, and which has vaulted the barriers of the traditional art market to create works in the outdoors which are only accessibly in their environment. Land Art ties together the visual and the sensorial experiences, bringing the art to life in all its dimensions.

You can find a range of works depicting urban landscapes, mountains, sunrises, the rural French countryside and beyond, beautiful photos of our natural heritage, volcanoes, waterfalls, and so much more, on Artsper.

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Landscape

Menacée N°04

Dark

Un bout de mer

Landscape

Santorin

Espace Chimérique

Vibrations lavande

Evasion

Providence Mountains

Floral II., Hungary

Ox-Bow wood's number 2

Landscape

L'eau I

Luna Bella

Noir 01 “Black River”

Fudou-no-taki

Foggy morning on Lake Garda

Le pont Japonais

Synaesthetic silence

African lights

Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water dreaming) - Puyurru

A l'écoute du silence

Courant I

Constellation, China

Mar de nuestros Ancestros

Seascape

Winter

Homeland

Early Moon

Miroir de glace - 1/5

L'étranger

Jardin d'Eden

Perspective et lumière

Passion

Late to the party

Colorsaje 11

Landscape 1020241

What Lies Beneath

Nout’ vié l’église Champ borne ek son band’ vacoas

Reflection

Voiles (1)

Red glamour

Desolate Civilization

Ancient cathedral in Chernihiv

Totora before the rainfall

Vanilla

Petit rayé

Colline

Landscape with reeds

Sifnos ventana

Stromboli

Trout Lake

A l'ombre des arbres

Serie lago 2

Champ de meules de paille 03

Arbre de vie, arbre de mort

Life Buoy

The Weekend House by Knut Hjeltnes Architects

Stone field, Morocco

The Challenge of Place - Messaging

Paysage en devenir

L1000247 1

Lukarrara Jukurrpa (Desert Fringe-rush Seed Dreaming)

La mémoire

À la rencontre du printemps

With an Eye of Faith (Elephant Island, Antarctica)