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

Mendocino view

Rochers - 4

Rochers - 2

Light & Water

Spring Blossom

Two Pines from the Loggia

Fog

La Grande Cascade

Jeune femme sur le sable

Paysage de bord de mer

La Boucle du Rhône, Genève

L'orée du sentier

Falaise

Tauwetter_z

Winter

Senegal 2020, Horizon des événements

Série : Pièces de mer de Castoul

Chemin des bois

Paysage peint

Les hauteurs de Cologny, Genève

Promenade sur un sentier de campagne au crépuscule

Bord de rivière

Lavandières à la rivière

Paysage animé

Innocences, Series Albahian

Vue sur la mer, Italie

Baie de Naples et pêcheurs

Insomnia

Sans titre

Venise 1

Head in the Clouds

Patatissime

Janela para o Infinito

Evidence

Untitled

Home Planet

Lavande d'automne - Portrait de femme et nature

Village dans les vignes

Orizzonti 17

The snow melts in Ice Lake Valley

Enchanted forest

Instrument

After the rain

The Great Vibes Off Castreccioni

Après la pluie 6

Mirador

Gondole dans la lagune de Venise

Montagnes dans les nuages

Saint Didier

Campagne Genevoise

The Dance With The Blooming Sakura

Anse l'Etang (Martinique)

Red passion in the countryside - Tuscany landscape

A l'orée du village

Almond tree landscape

Huida hacia la libertad

De l'autre côté

Rabat

Watching the world pass us by #08

Paysage lacustre

La Rade à Genève

Le Retour par la Plage (Tunisie)

La plume, le pinceau, l'aiguille

Chemin au bord de l'eau

Untitled

Yellow Landscape