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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The gas station

Méandres bleu et sable

Orgasm

Blurred pink landscape

Find a way

Addicted to Fashion

Convergences

Balance

Plus jamais

Children online

En sommardag

Pink arch

Experimental Landscape 14

Feel the glow

Morning light

Fluidites Marines

Le volcan

promenade ( sur dibond)

Vague Nocturne

Tulip Fields Netherlands #05

New York dans l’ombre de la liberté (encadrée)

Untitled - Expression no. 1

Summertime

La forêt intérieure

Cascade et tumulte, les Gorges du Loup

Diavasi

Détente bord de mer

Soirée dans un village au sud

Ballet floral

A LA RECHERCHE DES EMBRUNS

Intermezzo 3.

Snow-Covered Serenity

Autumn in the park

Théâtre antique

Entre deux rives

Crazy night

Shingle Street

Au Cap Martin

In the park of Barcelona

Funny landscape

Horizon of Serenity

Série : Les monts Taihang - Tableau No 2

Composition 15

The Sense

Summer Scent

Island

Japanese Maple

Roma Diptico

Les arbres

Floating memories 03

N° 1014 Fugato risoluto.

Autumnal No. 9

Femme au bord de l'eau, 1910 | Woman at the Shoreline, 1910

Provence numéro 7

Dune Jaune

Ecrin de lumière

Pousse-Moi

Bafoussam

Le sentier côtier

The Last Rays of the Sun

La tour du lac

Vision intérieure - Les Oliviers / Vision from the inside - the Olive trees

Toi et moi

Existence21

4Seasons Autumn

Un jour ailleurs