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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Autumn Rose

Paysage avec un Banc

Kali Yerg (old Armenian song) by Komitas

Giverny

Tripe 09

60.60

From When We Were Animals

Horizons

Au bout du Cap Coz

Lumière matinale au Cap Coz

Plage du Cap Coz

Ile de Ré - Les marais salants

Two Trees

Alejandra

Espace d'un rêve n°12

Landscape no.2 - Valley

Balloon Dog

Stormy Sky

Profusion

Cirrus Cloud Art

World in green. San Francisco

Dessine-moi le bonheur Edition

Untitled

La couleur de mes rêves Edition

Dansez les pins parasols Edition

Memoirs of loss V

Lake Reflections

Memoir of loss X

Northern Slope

Le champs des cerisiers

Landscape

Blue morning

Summer colors in 1969

Snowdrops

Printemps

Paysage avec Grange

Naxi III

Landscaping-CXXVI

City on the mountain

Landscape no.3

Altenberg

Landscape

Carpe Diem

On est notre environnement (Franck Normandie)

On est notre environnement. Série Euskadi 5

My spring garden

The Spirit Guides

Nuit Sidérale II

Forest Path

Le jardin des supplices

Une plage en hiver

Rêve et voyage Fantastique d'un Enfant

Lisbon, Portugal 1755

Columbia River 1948

N° 1217 Oléron. Le Port des Salines 2.

By The Sea

Earthy Delights

What I think about when I cuddle my dachshund dogs

Casa con cielo azul

Maxim's à la tour

Place of pawer 2

Place of pawer

Puesta del sol

Entre ciel et eau

Entrée du port D'ouistreham

Première neige