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-XIX

Just rainy-XXXII

Palace on the Island / Lazienki Park in Warsaw, Poland, city landscape

Lightning in the night mountains

Sunset boat

Summer landscape with white-pink cloud

Untitled

La cabane tchanquée

Lonely trees-XVII

Pink evening

Soft spring

The beaten path

La vague scélérate

Listening to silence

Memoir of loss X

The old lady

Non-existand landscape

First Day of the Year

Imaginary landscape 3

Chérubin Enfant au corail 1991 Cherub Child and Coral

Winter evening

In the courtyard

Punjab, Pakistan 2010

Sur la lande...

Les voiles de Saint Tropez

Verdant Serenity

Red Earth 1

Vineyards in the mountains

Sunrise in the Frozen Forest

Egarement

Yellow, blue and red Sails

Lisbon, Portugal 1755

Columbia River 1948

This silly world

Landscaping-CXLVIII

Landscaping-CLII

Autumn Serenity

1915 Mer et pierres Sea and stones

Félix VALLOTTON (1865-1925) Feux Fires

Félix VALLOTTON (1865-1925) Arbres du chemin Trees on the road

1910 Forêt Forest

Almond tree in bloom

Illusion

Boats at low tide

Strawberry seller

As the sky changes

Lost in thought

Andosonia

Seasons 3

Seasons 4

Seasons 8

Night trip

Day trip

Fairy night

Trees of gratitude

Serenity in the mountains

My lovely place to be

Seascape

Un paysage de Hopper !

Danse de l'Oiseau Vert 1996 Green Bird

1908 Deep Ocean

La Beauté en extase

Mer Tranquille

Divine radiance

Scribe moderne

Une scène de la nature !