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 sketch 52

Un soir à Natashquan Canada

Relief

Weathered Meadow

Lumière à l‘horizon… (Souvenirs du sud)

Trees by A Lake XL 1

Beautiful summer landscape XL 9

Prato con 2 ulivi

Abstract 2533

Abstract 2521

Abstract 2520

Paysage de juin

Snowboard

La Voix des Airs

City Life

Quelques touches de rouge...

Echoes of the Alps

Fleeting Sakura (ready to hang)

Le calme de l'horizon

Ethereal Dawn II

Quiet contrast

Evanescent light

Blue not blues

Echappée lointaine

Abstract 2462

Tom Dula (Black)

As one

Enjoying Spring to the Fullest

One breath

Entangled in you

Le feu glacial

Silence

Insoumise

Pour toi

Sparkle of Rain

Overwhelmingly beautiful life (Stretched)

Water lily garden

To The Moon

Cartographie sensible Île du Gaou - 1950

Caravan Paradise IV

Monkey Pulah

Junglekreek

Abstract 2307

Icon Landscape #1

Sunlit Atmosphere

Tom Dula (Black)

Landscape with field

Finding a song

Landscape 1

Reflets suspendus

Lanterne Veneziane

Cold air

Beauty of Stillness II

Red Pines

Les cabanes tchanquées Arcachon

Sailboat on the lake

Entrelacs 4

Silence abstrait

Les grandes vacances

Nuances

Champs en été

NOIRMOUTIERS, MON ETE PLAGE DES DAMES

Times of migration

Crâne cheval bleu

Wrapped around you