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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Lights of Autumn Diptych (ready to hang)

I will play until sunrise

Breath of the Sunrise (ready to hang)

Untitled 2

Landscape sketch 49

American trails

Ciel 13

The sun behind the poplars. Poplars by Claude Monet

Lithosphere 200

Lotus

Abstract forest-III

Abstract forest-I

Rainy impression-XVII

Autumnal mood-V

Landscape sketch 24

Landscape sketch 14

Cloud of Light (ready to hang)

Landscape 88

Ciel 12

Mémoire de JingDeZhen

Etincelles Marines - Variation N°2 - Gravure & Poésie

Ethereal Dawn II

Don't try. Do!

Storm over the Altiplano

Pansies

Insouciance

Elephants...in a colorful world

Gratitude for the every moment

Paysages de Chine 33

La lune et l’homme

Lithosphere 201

Verdant Reverie - Framed champagne

In The Blue Wind

It's a New Day

Infiniment bleu 6

New opportunities

Estran

Autumnal mood-VIII

Yellow field

Eternal symphony of love

Monument-VI (The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2007, NY, US)

Water_rhinefalls_007

Sérénité 3

Jaillissement Terrestre

Landscape

Résonances sous le Feuillage

Stoneforest in Red

Golden Serenity

Reflet Majorelle

Polar night

Inland

Romantic Sundown L 1

Sans titre 5

Green Mountains

Même si

Untitled 6

Ciel 25

Ciel serie 2 V

Landscape II

Infiniment bleu 1

Poppies and Peace

Etang

Ciel 31

Floraison Suspendue

Entre ciel et rêve

Dans la nuit N02