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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Un tit bout’ de nout’ berceau du peuplement - La grotte des premiers français Saint-Paul

The Harbor

Roulotte en bord de mer

Castel

Le Meneur d'ombres

Blowing wind

Way to the home II

Falling waterfalls 03

Les calanques

Arbre 1956 Tree

Promenade Matinale

Fire Brook Falls

Festive Sky

The Childhood of Chaos 10 original masterpiece O Kloska (1977)

La Sainte Marie de la mer

Fragment #4

Snoopy, Nuit paisible

Les Oliviers

Return to Paradise

A walk in the moonlight

Chevaux rouge et blanc

Fin de journée

Primorsko

L'Arbre de vie

L'arbre noir

Chevaux blancs

Paysage hivernal

Sur la côte Normande

Un jour d'automne

Rose per Te

Bleu

Expanse of red poppies . Tuscany painting & handmade frame

Guerriere

Emergence

-You silly, who are you? Why did you come here? -my name is a Sea!

Barques à marée basse

Humility

Route 66- Cadillac Ranch No. 1

Capri 2

In the evening- Venice painting

Autumn trees by the river

La canopée rouge

Chasm Lake

Northern lights 5

Winter sunshine

VI 04-22

Les flamants roses

Landscape

Il libro delle mie favole preferite

Dark

Un bout de mer

Gaspard des montagnes (12)

Les Coquelicots d'hiver

Landscape

Transcoder - The Secret about Curves

Landscape

African lights

Paysage Damier

Menacée N°04

Santorin

Marine

Celeste II, China

Vibrations lavande

Foggy morning on Lake Garda

Evasion

6 Fine Art Prints Limited Collector's Portfolio Edition - Vador The Space Show