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

Le Passage

Garden

Almond trees in bloom

Suzhou aux pastels - Chine

Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Puyurru

The wild forest

Birkenwaeldchen (Beech Forest)

A travers les pins aux abords d'Agay

Série Fouilles variation ADB

Paysage

Ôte toi de mon soleil

Verdure printanière - Paysage valloné semi figuratif

Jeu de domino

Retour de baignade à la plage

Champs aux fleurs jaune

Paysage de la campagne genevoise et du Jura

Sea Stones

Exotic Fantasy

Blue Oak

Sans titre

Lonely Tree

Unbounded

Le rêve s'évapore au matin

Lorette

B4 The coming of the raining season

île

Paysage de Chine I

This place has been here before #2

The Rescue

Paysage d'un village enneigé

Paysage de campagne en été

Dans les vignes

Filets de pêche au-dessus de la rivière - Livorno Retoni Sull'Arnaccio

Green and Bunker

Piazzale del Pincio

Stay Soft Now, Can't Breathe 5

A sunset in paradise

Between Keats and Shelly

Sans titre

Paysage de campagne

Costa Ligure

Prière Prayer

Vue sur le lac

Femmes au foin

Campagne Genevoise

Paysage

Les heures bleues

Paysage de campagne avec arbre fruitier en fleurs

Coastline

Jayne Mansfield Crash Site

What Lay in the Distance

Automne en Bourgogne

Projection view (Palms and yellow boom)

1 Kilomètre #10

Landscape 2115

Village dans les Alpes

1987 Le Tigre et le Sage The Tiger and the Monk

Grasp

Champs Cathédrale de Chartres Fields Cathedral

Indefinite Fields

Australian village

Vue sur le lac dans les hauteurs de Vully

Rainy drive

Vince II

Fern Field: Light and shade, Painting, Acrylic on canvas

Massachusetts Mist