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

Illimani in blue

Ile de Brise Pain Creteil

Rugged Mosaic

Stiller See

Woman

The jewel of the river

Swimming, glemmingebro, Sweden

Petita casa-moll

'Pre autumn warmth

Le port de Brigneau, Bretagne réf: CPBD1033

Arbre de vie de nuit

La petite maison grise

Dancing Blooms by the Stream

Venice - The Grand Canal

River rise

Les chemins du silence n°2 - série Paysage et forêt

Flotteur

Beyond This Earth (Life Within) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Nature

Ruisseau de montagne

Les coquelicots dans les blés

Scène de genre avec paysans, vaches et moutons

On the road, III

Rising Moon

The end of that day, Painting, Oil on canvas

Chaussette

Masques dansants d'Ensor

Bain de Saphir

Landscape No.1

Olive tree with cacti in blossom

On est notre environnement (Mathieu)

La porte etroite

Coastline stones in water

Morning Glories on a Red Trellis

Happy Hour

Rivière manzanares

One of Ginkgo III

The presence of a lake

#Paysage sauvage #2

L’herbe des Corbières

Dialogues I

El Paraje

Glisser sur le coeur

Venice

Souvenirs incertains

Water keeper

Le premier février

Canal

Ghosts of Gauguin

Madrid-1

Thin ice

Shining

Troisième cabane de jardinier (deuxième état)

Untitled

Television Antenna

La Drôme

Relict

Paysages 147

Migration II - Jour N°37

Poisson plume

Buisson floral

Depth of Light

Wave

Paysage en Expansion

Distorted Landscape 2

Love Renaissance

A Joyful Day in the Village