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

Needle In A Haystack

Blue salty

Etang XII

Pulse

Untitled

Orphée aux enfers

City legends

Été à la poterie

Can Can B.

Fog in the port

Evening

Mediterráneo

Aux abords de la maison

Reclusion

Apres l'orage

Au loin la rivière

Bosc II (1)

Photographie de Paysage Hivernal - Fuyu no Shi: Itareru H?y? : Poésie d’Hiver : Étreinte Givrée

The House in the Woods

Chemin entre les mazots et vue sur le Cervin

Petit chemin et barque bleue

Horizon - série Montagne

Happy Pink Horse 2001 Le cheval rose joyeux

Village 04

Bab

Petit sentier en forêt

Lake Tahoe

Paysage I

Composition 1

Troisième cabane de jardinier (deuxième état)

Rivière automnale

Rising Tide

La barque noire - Paysage semi abstrait

Pleine Lune Nuages Gris (Purple)

Montagnes Sacrées Diptyque 1

Encre II

Rizières lointaines

Paysage de Chine 1

Untitled

La Direction

La Drize à Troinex, Genève

Parece que despeja

Village sous la neige

Yxlan by night 2

L'Oasis Algérien

Morning Mood

Ville En Pollution

Dans les algues il y a des rêves

Moissons de nuées

Untitled V and II

Sans titre

Bikers in The Forest

Sea shells on the sea shore

Morning on the Bay

Meadow in the light of afternoon

Paysage en Provence

Daily Life

Paysage d’hiver

Tripe 12

Ligne de mire #4

Hawaiian Aloha

Our Nest

EVASION

Milk Bottles

Paysage du lac

La Grière