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

Mediterranean coast

West of the way

Paisaiak X

Green 02

Esperance I

Playing on the lake

Migrations - Portrait d'oiseaux et paysage imaginaire

Le Port de Villefranche sur mer

Dance of Water

Landscape

Rituels 1

Whisper of the Moonlit Forest

Peacekeepers

Sunset Over The Meadow

The Palms #9

Port de Rouen

En Beauce Opus 1

Venise

Sans-titre

Sea View at Tresaith

A Moment Of Rest

Mozarts in Vienna

The Waste Land (inspired by T.S Eliiot)

Métamorphose

Dinosaur of Jeju island

Landscape

Fog in the Basque Country

Venice at Night

Stroll in the Jungle

Au bord du Rhin

Aube. - Paysage abstrait

Face III

Chocolate Factory & Crazy Sunset

Untitled II

Lefkara Village

Now Future Battle

Forest Lake. Original painting

Le magicien d'Oz

Sin título

Crystal Forest

Seul au monde II (Namibie)

The Legends Of Mountains

Tuscan landscape with grapevines and olive trees

Bury

Kutubu Klan

Lake

Memoirs of loss VI

Only the Strong Survive

Let’s Go Pick Stars

Vert paradis

Pastoral

Where Hearts Meet

Couleurs océans

Neorupestres

La barque de SA'AM

Boathouses

Promenade dans la forêt

After the Rain I

Sans titre (136)

L'arrivée à Bandol

Almond Terrace

Quatre saison 4

Winter Landscape

Sans titre 6

Paysage

Untitled