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

Weathered Meadow

Tendrement

Enjoying Spring to the Fullest

L'instant

Le feu glacial

Silence

Insoumise

Water lily garden

House in Endenich

Les grandes vacances

To The Moon

Lanterne Veneziane

Cartographie sensible Île du Gaou - 1950

Paysage ensoleillé

L'esquisse du silence

Abstract R 2507

A tree

La vie est belle

Tom Dula (Black)

As one

One breath

Entangled in you

Icon Landscape #1

Red Pines

Little lined landscape

Landscape 2

Landscape 1

Serenade of the Rising Sun (ready to hang)

The Old Man and the Sea - Apotheosis

Beauty of Stillness II

Sailboat on the lake

Those same lilies of Claude Monet (stretched)

Pin et cyprès

Trees by A Lake XL 1

Beautiful summer landscape XL 9

Untitled (Calm Landscape)

Colorful Landscape

Orange sky clouds (Magnetic sunrise)

Listening to spring

Tom Dula (Black)

Tranquillité

Finding a song

Champs colorés

Normandy 2

Couleurs éphemeres

Les bosquets

Lacis

Paysage bucolique

Times of migration

Abstraction concrète 723

Tiberion

L'été s'envole

Touche divine

Ultimo scoglio

Impassioned you

Abstract 2410

Village I

Pink Palm

Tulip Fields Netherlands #04

Tulip Fields Netherlands #01

Lights of Autumn Diptych (ready to hang)

First Rays

Morning in Kotor Bay

Malgré ce qu'ils disent

Floral Landscape

Venice-where love live