Semi-abstract Landscape Artists

Camille Pissarro's landscape entitled Orchards in Bloom, Louveciennes (1872) was one of the first Impressionist paintings to be displayed. The use of buildings and trees to frame paintings and the ability to capture light or fleeting cloud shadows on a hillside changed the art world forever. Can we see what the artist saw? By forgoing absolute realism, but still creating landscapes that were recognizable, the Impressionists opened the floodgates for color and shape to become the focus. By the 20th century, abstract art strived to not depict any 'likeness' to reality at all. But what if there is a middle ground, a shift away from realism in order to capture life and light in the moment but not abstract enough that color and shape denies the viewer anything recognizable – like semi-abstract landscape art? Like abstract figurative art, this movement can fall on the spectrum between realism and complete abstraction and in our selection of works, artists like Liliane Paumier paint “life itself", depicting harmony in their use of color when rendering rural motifs. Suiting vast compositions, semi-abstract landscape art can broaden the frame of the artist and allow them to take a snapshot of what the eye can't see…yet still recognizes – you only have to tumble into the abyss of artists like Christelle Desangles to find out…

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Semi-abstract Landscape Artists

Magnolias Magenta

Vanité

Tools of Creation

Le Louvre, Paris

Le Pendule

Songe pastoral 3

Songe pastoral 2

Variation abstraite 1

Variation abstraite 2

Variation abstraite 4

Variation abstraite 3

The Alps

Summer garden

Spring garden

Peonies

Polo - Horse painting

Roses in my garden

Air, Light, a Flight ...

Near the Tisza River

View of the Village

Etude 72

Castle in Contre

Summer at the River

Evening on the River

Moment of Sun

Apple Tree in Bloom

Etude 17

Golden Radiance

City shadows Watercolor cityscape

Chinatown

Marée basse - Paysage abstrait

Pines in the Twilight World

Birches Bend to Left and Right

The Poetic Foliage on the Mountain

Autumn Tapestry

Wild Flower Field with Mountains in the Back

Passion in Bottles

Pomegranate Abundance

Joyful Floral Arrangement

Granier rouge

Sunny Beach

Winter forest

Comfort of the Carpathians

Shadow of the Carpathians

River Among the Heights

In the Garden

Forgotten Coziness

Around the River

On the Lake

Autumn city - City landscape Watercolor painting

City landscape Greece

City landscape Saint Petersburg

Step into Nature

City of Love

The Carpathian Harmony

Prague -Love

Wine Vilage

Trois montagnes (particules)

Tanka africaine

Le marché aux fleurs - Scène de vie citadine

Villeneuvette - Paysage figuratif coloré

Happy Morning

A Trip to Dream City

Trois montagnes (magma)

In the Shadows

Cloud