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

Sunflowers

Lookout

Zouin My Maroc #2

Ovale-paysage n°5

Roy's

Un día tranquilo

From the Mountains

Untitled 1

Driving from Santa Fe

L'atelier

Dissolution - sérigraphie

Hawaiian Aloha

Les coquelicots dans les blés

Petit sentier Corse et olivier

Saturday Morning

Home

Les Meules en hiver à Palaiseau

Désertique

Lotus I

Into The Garden

Lupine Meadow Spring Landscape

Colour framents

Scaffolder #1

Endless Road

Mighty Oak in Summer

Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Puyurru

Lithographie originale

Flying High

Contact is Content at Seljalandsfoss

Morning

Dreams

Paysage de Chine IlI

Espace d'un rêve n°9

New Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

Bleu

Ice Debacle

Untitled

La Vague (The Wave)

Jusqu’Ici Tout Va Bien 3

Um Outro Encanto, Joana Antunes

Landscape

The Fears

Great Wall

Cadence

Port 1983 Harbour

Marine

Entre-murs

Les Calanques, encore une fois la mer

The strong and the free

Coastline stones in water

I saw a horse

Sans titre

Winter Landscape with Sheep

Landscape. Villa Borghese (Rome, Italy)

Anti-portrait

Turn. Embroidery painting in red velvet design.

Estiu al camí (Garriguella, Alt Empordà)

Lines, I

Untitled branches (1)

Early Inhabitants

Ametllers florits

Untitled

Resting by the Green Grass Stream

1981 L'aube The dawn

Coda

Browing