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

Small Talk

Bios-G-VIII

Armenian Church

Hold Me

Arbre de vie

Sand and sky, Weymouth

Two Floating Black Cubes and a White River

Sérénité

Abstract landscape N°4

La ronde

Love in the Time of Forest Fires

Frozen in Time

La vie par dessus l'horizon

Le rocher de Consolation

L'automne

Yard by the sea

Landscape

Magic Comes To Lurline Bay

Libre comme le vent

Chartreuse Over Cerelean

The Giant

Birds

Salines

Extraits de nature II

The Forest

Les nuits bleus

Just a Nice Day III

De feu et de cendres 2

Blossoming of apple trees

Car

Sky is the Limit

Beach Life, Sandy Shore

Autumn Veil

Les arbres 02.03.25

West of the way

Winter Valley

La Passe Sans Porte

Montañas

Don de soi XXVII

Memory of objects

Playing on the lake

Crepuscule

Venice

Nebulous

Hush of Winter

Pond with pink lilies

One for All, All for One

Partition - Abstraction, exploration de paysages émotionnels

Déjà vu

Paysage d'Occitanie II

Respite

Chocolate Factory & Crazy Sunset

First snow

Mozarts in Vienna

Sans titre

Starry Night

Menorca. Paysage #6

The Waste Land (inspired by T.S Eliiot)

Vast IV

Romantic plants 1

Clipping

Prince of Wale's Diving #7 "Lookers"

Observation Post

Sans titre - série paysage et végétal

Santorin night - collection spéciale Grands Formats

At the Onset