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

Vibration

Pilon de Azucar

Snow Leopards

Trough The Clouds

Red Eye #5, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel

Wo wenig mehr ist, #745

Willow

Berries

Solitude

Land & Lake I

Winter

Le vol des perroquets

La ferme Caporal

Palmiers

Amber Twilight

Suburbs

Ombre cinesi

Flower Power 1

Lunar

Promenade #2

King of the Jungle

Garden Wild, II

Emerald Oasis: Nature's Beauty in 3D Art

Broadway

Inspired by the East

J'aime les Chemins d'Océan

Naxingiña-natsie

Quiet Night in Our Yard

Les champs

1979 Paysage Photo Peinte au sable Landscape

Soleil levant 1979 Rising Sun. Soleil levant sur la montagne, Rising sun on mountains

Grand paysage lacustre 3

Landscape

La Villa à l'Aube

Ascension

Parece que despeja

Figuerolles

L'étang

Terres agricoles

Inland Florida

The romantic and you

Carte postale

A Seedling

Sea edge

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs

Bateaux de pêche

Cambodge Rizière - Série Paysage d'Asie

Paysage lac et montagne visage

De Profundis

Headed Back Home

Romance between ambiguities

Cosmologie terrestre

Chimère n°13 (les Manchots)

Champs de lavande en Provence - Paysage

Pinienlandschaft

Retour de baignade à la plage

World map marble

Bolata beach

Seaside

Paysage rural

Vue sur un paysage de Toscane

Chemin des bois

Verger en automne, Hermance

Paysage de montagne et petit ruisseau

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