Semi-abstract Landscape Artists

Camille Pissarro's landscape entitled Orchards in Bloom, Louveciennes (1872) was one of the first Impressionist paintings to be displayed. The use of buildings and trees to frame paintings and the ability to capture light or fleeting cloud shadows on a hillside changed the art world forever. Can we see what the artist saw? By forgoing absolute realism, but still creating landscapes that were recognizable, the Impressionists opened the floodgates for color and shape to become the focus. By the 20th century, abstract art strived to not depict any 'likeness' to reality at all. But what if there is a middle ground, a shift away from realism in order to capture life and light in the moment but not abstract enough that color and shape denies the viewer anything recognizable – like semi-abstract landscape art? Like abstract figurative art, this movement can fall on the spectrum between realism and complete abstraction and in our selection of works, artists like Liliane Paumier paint “life itself", depicting harmony in their use of color when rendering rural motifs. Suiting vast compositions, semi-abstract landscape art can broaden the frame of the artist and allow them to take a snapshot of what the eye can't see…yet still recognizes – you only have to tumble into the abyss of artists like Christelle Desangles to find out…

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Semi-abstract Landscape Artists

Garden Abstraction

Sun rays

Music of stones

Fragments of Still Life

Rugged Heights

Night Mallows

Red apples

White Tulips

Evening in the mountains

Mallows

Herbs

Olive Grove

Art of Everyday Beauty

Amalfi Coast

Village France. The Alps

Festive lights. The Alps

Summer daisies

Silence, evening

Purple Elegance

Yellow pears

Morning coffee

Magnolias

Forêt d'Iraty

Le Rayol II

Nymphéas sous l'eau

Rejeter les idées noires

Petra, le trésor immergé

Orage à Punta-Cana

Birches Bend to Left and Right

Lyon 2070

Lyon 2100

Scene

Nymphée bleu

Détail Majorelle

Nues V

Motive

Verge

Blue winter field

Evening in St. Petersburg

Svalyava Region

Autumn

Spring memories Watercolor painting with Tulips

The Carpathian Harmony

Summer light Watercolor painting with Roses

Humidifier

Spring day

August Watercolor painting Summer flowers

Flowering Mountains

Les iles diaprées

Roses Near the Sea

Inaltérable

Estuary in changing Weather

Snow-covered village

Winter Sun

Winter Ways

Preparation for winter

Yellow tree

Amazing Verkhovyna

A picturesque corner. Stuzhytsya

On the outskirts of Kolochava

Summer time

Carefree silence

Vigorous flowering

Palms of Croatia

Embankment in Prcanj

Bay view