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

American trails

Dune forest

Palermo_03

Abstract Seascape in Aqua and Beige

Calme au crépuscule

Spring symphony#1

The_bog_renatured_11

Pleasure Garden

Tent

Insouciance

Terre érotique

Paysage 242

Paysage Zen 7

Paysage Zen 5

Homage to Cezanne-II

Just rainy-XCV

Autumnal mood-IV

Rainy impressions-XXIII

Rainy impressions-XXII

Autumn-XIII

Abstract forest-III

Abstract forest-I

Sparks in the Fog

Rainy impression-XVII

Coucher de soleil

Bay of Kotor

Beautiful Day

Meadown

Belgian Forest

Autumn mood

Autumnal mood-V

Dente di Roccia

Whispers at the Edge of Daybreak (Seaguls and red sunset)

One lily white

Light as water

Douceur hivernale

Rhapsodie colorée

Boys and girls online

African circle

You and me forever

Gamins en ligne

Africans online

Les saisons 2

Gaiety

Serenity 23

Geometric landscape

Place Narrative 13.

Les parcelles 2

Mystere

Les champs

Bocage normand

A palette of memories

Spaces

Crossroads

Retour de fregate

Lithosphere 200

Lithosphere 205

Out of the blue 03

Rive de Bretagne

Subjective landscape.

Winter Morning

Wealth of Autumn.

Colorful silence (Big Monet)

L'ultime danse

The sun behind the poplars. Poplars by Claude Monet

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