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

Champs de sarrasin

Impression Boréale

Glaces et feux 4164

Far-­Flung Forces

Dead Slow

Champ de meules de paille 02

Forest – Filegree and Shadow Undergrown

On the banks of the river

Ciel menaçant

Sous-bois

Sans-titre

Rideau d'arbres

Gliese 12 b

Ombres sur la plage

Dispersion des champs

Monastery

Odyssey

Landscape with mills

Twenty one Moons Until Solstice - Day 11

Yellow field of Siberian rape

So close yet so far out and Rubik's Cube, Diptych

Diptych, From The Movies series

Threshold of Stillness

Whispers in Amber

The Edge of Evening

L'hirondelle

Muguet et Jonquille

Envolée lyrique

Les Oiseaux

Paisaje en verdes

Paisaje de Gerona

Tarragona

Les moissons bleues

Where Time Dissolves in Bloom

The Hushed Pulse of Summer

Habiter demain Rose #001

Rochers - 4

Rochers - 2

Light & Water

Spring Blossom

Two Pines from the Loggia

Fog

La Grande Cascade

Bord de rivière

Lavandières à la rivière

Paysage animé

Innocences, Series Albahian

Vue sur la mer, Italie

La maison blanche

Untitled

Insomnia

Sans titre

Venise 1

Head in the Clouds

Patatissime

Huts

Brosh

Magie du crépuscule

Variation d'un paysage 7

Après la pluie 6

The snow melts in Ice Lake Valley

Quai de Rouen, grand pont

Enchanted forest

De l'autre côté

The Great Vibes Off Castreccioni

Gondole dans la lagune de Venise

Far-Flung Forces