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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COQUELICOTS ET IRIS DANS UN CHAMP DE TOURNESOLS

Col de San Stefano

Tête de Ventasuso

Mont Séti

Taos III

Meule

Désert d'Atacama 8

REDWOOD NIGHTS ECSTASY Triptych

Iguazu

Black Hole

Éruption marine

The View

Sinemoretz village

Désert d'Atacama 1

Désert d'Atacama 6

Anticyclonic storm

Artic autumn

Meadow landscape

Floating By A Sea Of Poppies In A Green Field diptych

Reflections Of The Moon At Midnight On Water Lillies

Vague Rouge

Vague suspendue

Altitude 02

Gray solstice

Autumn lake

Autumn morning 2019

IRIS DANS UN CHAMP DE COQUELICOTS ROUGES

Paysage sans titre

The door no.4

Iceland 2

Champs de Sourires

Sourire méditerranéen

Je souris...

Palmeraie sourire

After the storm

Kassiopi

Fuori stagione

Sirens Song (S)

Le rêve de la femme du plongeur

Blue Book (3)

Blue Book

En foret de Fontainebleau

Sirens Call (S)

Odysseus (S)

Lure (S)

A Frog Atop Water (S)

Ragolles et béruchet

Landscape sketch 20

Landscape sketch 19

Landscape sketch 7

Landscape sketch 6

Landscape sketch 29

Portrait aux 3 crayons

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Filtrecafe90-s

Filtre Café 13

Irruption

Sur La Plage

Ballade en forêt

Grut

Les Alpilles / The Alpilles

Flitre Café 4

Paysage Avec Une Clôture