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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NOIRMOUTIERS, MON ETE PLAGE DES DAMES

Landscape sketch 24

Landscape sketch 14

Landscape 88

Pont de pierre dans la brume

Ciel 12

Mémoire de JingDeZhen

Le pont du sable

On sort les voiles

Storm over the Altiplano

Pansies

Insouciance

Paysages de Chine 20

Tumulte

Indochine

PETIT SOLEIL D'AUTOMNE

West Coast

Estran

Paysages de Chine 19

Ethereal Dawn II

A Rainy Romance

Le doux chant des arbres

Night view

Côte d'azur, enfin les vacances

LES PETITES HISTOIRES DES FAVELAS

Résonances sous le Feuillage

Dansez les pins parasols

Stoneforest in Red

He is Not from Here

Soleil rouge

Galdosa

Alpine Dream

Serenity on the bayou

Dark blue landscape

Full moon, night landscape

Lonely River

L'ILE D'YEU

Untitled 6

Lake Dreams

Ile mystérieuse

Ciel 25

Ciel serie 2 V

L'arbre acidulé

N° 1007 Bruscamente con bravura.

CARAIBES IMPRESSIONS

SUD ,C'EST ICI QUE JE VEUX VIVRE

Ozhiko

Ciel 31

Floraison Suspendue

Entre ciel et rêve

Rebirth

Sunset flowers

Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue

Le Vercors au printemps / The Vercors in spring

Le sud nous va bien

Aus dem Leben der Bienen

It's a beautifull day

LE BEAU VOYAGE DES CARPES KOÏ

SIESTE AU MARAIS SALE

PROVENCE, UN MATIN DE DOUCEUR

Horizon

Suite de Pâques, La cohorte

Paradis Perdu

ciel serie 2 IIII

En route 3

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