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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Espace d'un rêve n°12

Landscape no.2 - Valley

Stormy Sky

Dessine-moi le bonheur Edition

Untitled

La couleur de mes rêves Edition

Dansez les pins parasols Edition

Memoirs of loss V

Memoir of loss X

Landscape

Snowdrops

Printemps

Paysage avec Grange

Landscape no.3

Altenberg

Landscape

Carpe Diem

Forest Path

Le jardin des supplices

Lisbon, Portugal 1755

Columbia River 1948

Maxim's à la tour

Place of pawer

Entre ciel et eau

L'arbre qui pleure

Strawberry seller

The last huntsman

Arbre Feuille

L'arbre de la connaissance #1

Leaves

Bunch of flowers

Scribe moderne

Landscape blue and green

Barcelona 83

Resurrection

Sandbar

Stiltsville I

Col de San Stefano

Tête de Ventasuso

Mont Séti

Taos III

Meule

Désert d'Atacama 8

Mother

Iguazu

Black Hole

Éruption marine

Sinemoretz village

Désert d'Atacama 1

Désert d'Atacama 6

Vague Rouge

Vague suspendue

Observation Point

Paradise

Pebbles and Shells V

Altitude 02

N.O.B.O.D.Y (France I)

N.O.B.O.D.Y (Cambodia III)

N.O.B.O.D.Y (France II)

Iceland 2

N.O.B.O.D.Y (Cottonou, Benin)

N.O.B.O.D.Y (Cambodia IV)

Champs de Sourires

Sourire méditerranéen

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