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

Secret Beach

Paysage d'Alsace

Sky

Mountains

Port

Mallorca

Sunrise

Rising

Abstract landscape 2

Green Sky

Rural Landscape

Cap d'Erquy

The Ancient Theater

Une bonne cueillette

Distant Lake

Walk Upon The Earth

Le croisic

Ville déserte près de la centrale les oiseaux déserte

Morning chime

La Seine aux Andelys

Paysage

Snowscape Glow

Chicago Blues

Champ de l'herbe

A few wispy clouds

Set of 2 Photographs. Cyanotype photograph of the ocean waves

Unitled 2017

Tailwind

Iris

View of the Forum Romanum

Crystal Silence

Place of pawer 4

Le Louvre

Ciel flamboyant Ref BDNW10739

Paysage chinois

Unicamente se oye el sileci

Paysages imaginaires (1)

Bodega Bay

Marsh with Pink Sky

The guiding light, Painting, Acrylic on canvas

This Wallpaper is not Avaiable

Sunset Silhouette

Majorca

Entrelazar 5

Waterfall

Le pont II

Colorful Landscape

Lucy the Hen and Her Grand Plan

Bouquet d'eau

Danube landscape 2

Orange Grove

Sans-titre

The Mediterranean Garden

Analitica 6

Alium Light

Nothingness (Le Néant)

Over the rainbow, Under the stars

Untitled 72

Dynamic Sky

Sans titre I

Ituango, Pigment Prints

Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) Arbres Trees

La série : Orogenèse - Chu Ta

Le parc à huîtres

Utopia

Paysage de campagne avec montagnes et nuages