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

Village YaoLi

Ciel serie 2 II

Ciel serie 2 I

En route 2

Ciel 30

Ciel 29

Groupe

Forêt

Ciel 2

Ciel

Éolienne

Garage

Forêt

L'arbre

Neige

Ciel 25

Lune d'hiver

Ciel 18

Eolienne II

Vitesse II

Vitesse I

Ciel 16

Ciel 15

Ciel 11

Ciel 10

Ciel 8

Les vignes de Montmartre

Infiniment bleu 2

Infiniment bleu 9

Infiniment bleu 8

Plein Ciel

Calme campagne au bord de l'eau

Viens je t'emmène

PETIT MATIN A GRAND BAIE

FLIC AND FLAC DESSINES MOI DES BATEAUX

Moon River

MON JARDIN D'EDEN, LES ARBRES

SOUS LE CHARME DE SAINT TROPEZ

Cane

Sans titre

Pyrethia

Ciel 28

Ciel 27

Ciel 26

Branche

Neige 2

Ciel 14

Parfum printanier

L’âge d’or

Solarion

Thalar

Zeeland, The Netherlands 1953

Le temps des brumes

Bayou dreaming

Springfield flowers

Giraffes

Dreams of surrealistic fly agaric

Landscape blue red

Blue sunset with a pink cloud

Night landscape

End of Winter

Hot day

Rainy impression-XIV

Rainy impression-XIII

Rainy impression-XII

Summer rain-X