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

Sans titre n° 52

Vor

Fertility

Go with the flow

Plein Sud

Tornade, Lousianne

Nuit de couleur de ville

Lever de lune

Le clos a la petite vigne

Ville Nocturne

Solitude

Golden Autumn

Love is a river

Sasso Crudo

Everything is Going to be Alright (Work No. 3531)

Continuité

Southampton Barn

Atacama Desert

Chapelle de St Philibert

Liquid Sky

A Safe [?] Place [?] to Fall…. v.2.12

La Voute

Siècles de solitude

England Forest#1 - Vieux tamarin des hauts

Dawn of the Mavericks

Le violoniste

Daily life in the valley

Phoenix royale

Soulèvements

Le paysage rouge

Un Matin à Madagascar

Memory landscape 4

No Foreign Lands

Aznavour's song

Spülsäume

Rainy Day

Four Houses

Paysage

It will never be the last time

Belongings 1

Métamorphose végétale

Pirogue on the Mississippi (Published in Monograph)

Fruit of the Goddess

Sailboat in the ice...

0616-02

Petit Corps au Grand Arbre Doré

Factory CCCP

Ilands

Sand barge at Noordwijkerhout

Viento en Casa

Selva - Bleu

Catching the Sun

La plage

L’espace -Temps

Untitled

La Jungfrau

Life Tree

Palombrière 06

The View From the Window

Layer of Amazon

Soccer Field

Voir les yeux fermés - sans titre #19

Green Murmurs

Le gardien de la forêt

Failles #01 Irlande

Wish You Were Here