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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Maroc. Dune de sable de Merzouga

Marché aux chameaux. Puskar. Inde

Enfants, marchés aux chameaux. Puskar. Inde

Femmes indiennes, marché de Puskar. Inde

Essais hivernaux. Coucher de soleil sur Ayrton Senna

Uran

Postpink

Isole

L'Albero del bene e del male

Lacanau Beach mini

A Team Game

Villa Del Balbianello

Nicely Coiffed

Lyon 2070

Lyon 2100

Viaduc de la siagne

Chemin de la pointe de l'aiguille

Make me water

Tree acres of happiness

Night in Venice

Night in blue

Le coup de pied aux étoiles

Le traceur de ligne

Côtes d'Armor

The house of the cat

Vue du Ciel

A piece nature

N° 997 Le Renard et les Poulets d'Inde

N° 992 Choses du soir.

Collina rossa

Aesthetic Beauty

Le Sceptre du Vent

Passent les Rêveurs

Sans Titre

Horizon Perdu

Intrusion

Clouds

Kars Fort

Kars-Déferlante

Colorado No. 33

Appalachians No. 2

Forest

Forest

Natural landscape

Berge de la Siagne

Lost Village_25

Lost Village_12

Ipanema #13 "Paõ de Azucar view"

Ipanema #8 "Niteroï"

I Wish 2

Mémoire de voyageurs

Purple colored morning

Arrival at the beach

Mountains in backlight

Les chemins du silence n°5 - série Paysage et forêt

Colorful colors of spring

Rocks

The day goes by

Autumn Haze

Last flight

Favorite places

Bathhouse

En Forêt de Fontainebleau

Coucher rouge

Abstract landscape-XIII

Autumnal mood-X