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

Sunset After Rain

Désert baloon

Where The Wild Things Are

Créature III

Waterdrops

India

La forêt du lac

Tenerife, Anaga Forest

Mouvement pétrifié

Etre dans le bleu

And the Sea will be there 10

Koh chang island

Tempête en forêt /

Body in the Field #8

Delicate balance de la série paysages en difficulté / Struggling landscapes

Heaven

Penché sur le Doubs

Ngurlu Jukurrpa (Native Seed Dreaming)

No New Friends

Équivalences (50 tirages uniques)

sans titre

Comme Dans Un Boudoir #04

La ciotat #2

Michael Kenna, Des oiseaux - Édition limitée

Young Manila Singer Island

Un coin de ciel bleu

Liens

Paysages - 0707

Blue horse

Luna

Dreaming of Paris

Les Gardiens du son

Autour du Lac Son Kol

Sous-bois (4)

Landschaft

printemps maritime

Landscape

Rieulay coucher de soleil et deux arbres

Mer de glaçons, série Vindur

Départ de la Calanque

Structure

The Knox's House

Camp

Dusking Time, Sphere

Hazenputten

Rio no color 22, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Village with sunflowers - Tuscany landscape painting & frame

Reflet vegetal II

Iceland 2

Blossoms

Le Phare

#IR_3459

Guglie Celesti, 3/10

Mortels, mortels, nous sommes immortels

Signes de désorientations (série)

Saturn From Titan

Citoyens de la Terre

Umbrellas

Entre la Terre et Ciel

Préxialia

Askjer

La luna llora y hace un océano de vida

Meeting at the Cross Roads

Wind & Dust

Don't lose your way

Marismas de conil