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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Métamorphose végétale

Pirogue on the Mississippi (Published in Monograph)

Fruit of the Goddess

Sailboat in the ice...

0616-02

Petit Corps au Grand Arbre Doré

Factory CCCP

Ilands

Sand barge at Noordwijkerhout

Viento en Casa

Selva - Bleu

Sur Neptune

Catching the Sun

La plage

L’espace -Temps

Untitled

Failles #01 Irlande

La Jungfrau

Life Tree

Palombrière 06

Green Murmurs

The View From the Window

Champs de chants

Layer of Amazon

Soccer Field

Voir les yeux fermés - sans titre #19

Le gardien de la forêt

Wish You Were Here

Passiflore

Les sept vallées

La Loire en automne

#3, from I-ching series

Vision of peace

Sans titre - Encyclopédie Vagabonde

Stoney Brook Bridge

Just a Tree...

Mad Hatter[s Grove

Limite incierto 22

Siberian shadows

Ex Voto

Paysage du Languedoc

Womankind. Fly 1

Nuages

Sky and Shadows II

Wondeful Journey – robe rouge

Histoire de femmes 4 - Estampe

After the flood

Vase le chant

Sans titre

Métamorphoses. Quand le corps devient paysage

La lune n'a rien à craindre des loups #6

Le Souffle de l'Autumna

Their landscape, Part 2

Figure Collection : Light Version

Lady on Raft

Le déjeuner sur l'herbe

Indian Autumn 2

Photo numero 1

Femmes au bain, bonheur

Racines 708

Racines 711

Paysage avec cage et sansonnet

Band of love

Bosco Rosso

La Ferme dans les Avoines

Les flamants roses