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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La Fée du lac

Winter Greys

View from Longmire Bridge II

House (3)

Rollers and palm trees

View across the lake

Landscape

Trópico

Full moon in Mazotos

Beautiful Rainforest Tree under the Deep Blue Sky

Landscape with a Moon Jar

Vibration

Promenade romantique

Casa descompuesta

Terre Sublimée par le Soleil

J'ville Tavern

Montagne enneigée

Untitled

Wo wenig mehr ist, #745

Au delà de la vallée 1991 Beyond the valley

Salt Lake

S'installer un temps ici

Paysage d'automne au bord du Lot

Eucaliptos

New Daisies

sans titre

1987 PLAY VII Ropes Branches Cordes Mezzotint

Untitled

Natural Oasis

The Pincio Fountain in Rome

La Forêt de Fontainebleau

Summer time

Tsaritsyno

Broadway

La maison blanche

Pic-Nic en famille

Rainforest

Otoño de un sueño

Camargue

Sunset over the river

Marine phare rochers

Landscape

Rivière, River, 1980. Méditation, Reflets des galets dans l'eau River Meditation, Pebbles in water

II ciclo della vita

Pins bleus – Portiers de jour

Mas de Provence

Maisons de Genève

City

Grey of the River

La cascade

Paesaggio South Dakota

Environs de Grasse

House-Made World #5

Un rêve éveillé

Saison II

Greengate

Green Thumb

Fall

Sunny road in a birch forest

Falla 1

Sans titre

Ahogos 1

Dune du pilat

A forest seed

Totem Land

Japon tropical n° 22