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

East View

The tree of life | Forest landscape natural art

Dance of Water

Moonlight Serenade

Water

Bord de rivière

Untitled 1

L'arbre d'Eden

Dream bubble

Les toîts roses

Island

Almond

Pixel landscape No.1

Sea and moon

Sunlight

The Teeth of Death

L'orage

A good morning

Champs Cathédrale de Chartres Fields Cathedral

Kensho 2252

The beginning of January in the forest

Cool, Calm and Collected

Prairie (PMR20-06)

Les deux amies II

Paysage

Paysage imaginaire #5

Fields behind Opishna

Every Leaf is a Flower

Plantes et gouttes d'eau - maison isolée - série Paysage imaginaire figuratif

Amours océanes - série Paysage abstrait

Casolari e cipressi I

Un été en Normandie

Dragon tail

Pines in the Twilight World

Paysages 251

Petite promenade

Lofts Lake, Fall

Pebbles in azure

I am not there

Faded glory

A4 - Cascade

Dans les champs N7

Romantic lake. Askania Nova

Sinfonía Natural

St Anastasie

Crique

After the rain at Happisburg

El Bosque De Los Mitos. From The Series Of Revelación,

Crisantemo

Composition

The Freedom Rider

Jardin de curé

Untitled. Selvatic Series

Débordement V

Olivier centenaire

Deux barques rouges

The bridge 41203

Autumn moon

Bouquet (Cyprès de Pornic)

Before the tempest

Mer de nuages - Paysage celeste

Sunset

Nubes Brillantes

Venezia

Méandre bleutée - Paysage abstrait cours d'eau

Brume sur le lac - Eau et nature - série paysage