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

River rise

Les chemins du silence n°2 - série Paysage et forêt

Woman

Petita casa-moll

Red Roofs, Golden Fields

Rovinj

Beyond This Earth (Life Within) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Nature

Arbre de vie de nuit

Scène de genre avec paysans, vaches et moutons

On the road, III

Rising Moon

The end of that day, Painting, Oil on canvas

La source 2006 Source of life

Chaussette

Maine Nocturne Opus V

Untitled 1

Dialogues I

Bain de Saphir

The jewel of the river

Landscape No.1

Olive tree with cacti in blossom

On est notre environnement (Mathieu)

La porte etroite

#Paysage sauvage #2

L’herbe des Corbières

Morning Glories on a Red Trellis

Summer Watercolor 1

Happy Hour

Rivière manzanares

One of Ginkgo III

The presence of a lake

Canal

Start and end

Untitled

Mid-Century Barbizon School Impressionist Lakeside Landscape

Masques dansants d'Ensor

Glisser sur le coeur

Venice

Water keeper

Le premier février

Ghosts of Gauguin

Madrid-1

Thin ice

Notturno

La Drôme

Relict

Les champs

Paysages 147

Migration II - Jour N°37

#202215

Buisson floral

Shining

Television Antenna

Dante

A Joyful Day in the Village

Frozen River

Miami

Paysage en Expansion

El Paraje

Common Grounds

Distorted Landscape 2

Paysage bleu 5

Love Renaissance

Window on the sea - Landscape Collection

Arboleda

Requiem for Missing Ships