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

First Snow

The Way Life Should Be

Green Apple

Romantic Meeting

Edge of the Land

No Name - I

The Couple

Yellow Flag

Labyrinth

Tree

Dry Grass

Sunset Road

Windmills

Call of the Road

East Direction

Call of the Road – II

Lucky

Romantic Landscape - II

Romantic Landscape - III

Romantic Landscape - IV

Over the Hills – I

Over the Hills – II

Secret World

Monaco

Rabat

Mors dominorum (Série)

Landscape

Spring

Spring, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Spring peach blossom bloom

Pluie de fleurs

Tre vasi

Un peu d'air pur

Violet lointain

Rouge lumière

Jaune Infini

Landscape with a moon jar

Landscape with a Moon Jar

Landscape with a Moon Jar

Landscape with a Moon Jar

Landscape with a Moon Jar

USA LA Last day Down town 5135

Mountain | Trees

Blossom | Mountain | Trees

Mulino Arancio

Fin d'été

Autumn in Kakheti, Georgia

The Landscape

Sunflowers

Locarno

Krishna with cow

Le Loing, matin d’été

Le petit abre

Danse des flamants roses

Sans titre

Sans titre

Sans titre

L'étendage au bord du lac

A quite place

Nothing is forbidden anymore

Village Solak

Beautiful and gentle schoolgirl in the autumn sun

Beautiful and gentle schoolgirl in the autumn sun

In the steppe

Space

Birches