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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Mémoire de JingDeZhen

Landscape 81

Landscape sketch 24

Landscape sketch 18

Landscape sketch 14

Storm over the Altiplano

La lune et l’homme

In The Blue Wind

Estran

The Soul of Trees II

The Soul of Trees III

Golden sunset of Monaco

Landscape

Filtre Café 34

Stoneforest in Red

Inland

Abstract Spring Awakening

Maps of Happiness II

Ciel 25

Picnic In the Shade

Ciel serie 2 V

Silence of the sea breeze

Lilac alley of love

Shining silence

The breath of autumn II

Old wall in Jerusalem

Red flowers in Egypt

Poppy field 9

Gardens bloom 3

Sans titre 5

Filtre Café 25

Tous égaux

Green Mountains

Untitled 6

Magritte was here

Landscape II

High Waters

Flaques de Printemps

Histories etched in Crimson

Etang

Ecosystem I

The infinite silence

National Park of Chitwan, Nepal

European Snow II

View of Tuscany

European Snow I

ciel serie 2 IIII

En route 3

Rebirth

Pêcheurs

Eolienne III

Les yeux du ciel II

Les yeux du ciel I

Mémoire de JingDeZhen

Mémoire de JingDeZhen

Mémoire de JingDeZhen

Village YaoLi

Ciel serie 2 II

Ciel serie 2 I

Ciel III 1

En route 2

Ciel 30

Ciel 29

Groupe

Forêt

Ciel 2