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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Eau, Sang de la Terre - 630

Glaces et feux 4164

On the banks of the river

Eikona

Brumes

Soir orangé

Les Friches 01

Bains Budapest 13

Sunlight in the wood

ECO38 - Series from Ecotone

Deux grues enlacées sous la lune

ECO32 - Series from Ecotone

ECO31 - Series from Ecotone

An old village (Graide)

The autumn forest

Love Hearts

Road to Marmaris

Remote houses - watercolor

Where the river forgets time

Summer days

Golden Breath of the forest

Wild Poppies Meadow

Tout feu tout flamme - Série Nature graphique

Summer in the Mountains

Post Scriptum X

Street Aresh

L'arbre à palabres 2, série : Ces gens venus d'ailleurs - Abstraction colorée

Qu'il fut long le chemin, série : Ces gens venus d'ailleurs - Abstraction colorée

Rendez vous, série : Ces gens venus d'ailleurs - Abstraction colorée

Overwhelmingly beautiful life (Stretched)

Spring

Meadown

Silence

Le jour où tout bascula

Empreintes, série : Ces gens venus d'ailleurs - Diptyque Abstraction colorée

Il n'est pas de hasard...Il est des rendez vous, série : Ces gens venus d'ailleurs

Venus de l'horizon, série : Ces gens venus d'ailleurs

Step to the dream

Spring

Archaic Reflections

Phoenix

Les petites sentinelles

Laguna Beach View

Lemon Tree in quarentine

Lemon tree in the backyard

San Francisco Bay from Skyline BLVD

Zuma Beach, Malibu

Rush hour on the westside

Colorado Street bridge, Pasadena

Hollyhocks

Malibu rocks #1

Malibu Rocks #2

Monterrey

Matador Beach, Malibu

Carolina Beach, San Juan, P.R.

El Escambron Beach

30 planes landing into Burbank 4-11-22

Helicopters and Palm Trees

Crow's Nest Saugatuck, MI

Lake Michigan

Ox-Bow Sunset

Ox-Bow woods number 1

Ox-Bow wood's number 2

Saugatuck Woods

Zuma Beach Malibu

Mendocino view