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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Morocco

Morocco

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Seascape

The Base

The Other World

The Issue

Evolution II, Salta, Argentina

Sun in my room

Dust

Tomato Soup?

From the cycle Winter ll

From the cycle Winter lll

Quelle fournaise !

Allées et venues en paysage moelleux n°1

Sun in my room

Anchorage

The silence

The place

The eternal return

Elsewhere

Upstream

Sanctuary

The Source

Immutable

Seascape

Seascape

Mysterious forest

Mysterious forest

Hit or Miss?

Amantis en el jardín

Seascape

Horizon

Seascape

Oracle

The shadow economy of extraction

Membres surchauffés

Nature Méditation Cyprès

Futuristic Landscape I

Le champignon

Arbre à cheval

Colorful Reflections

N°533

A summer day - Tuscany landscape painting

The hamlet vineyard - Tuscany landscape painting

Vineyard foreground - Tuscany landscape painting

Vanilia sky

White tar

A drop of milk

Buisson automnal

Red horse

Red horse

Red horse

Pink horse

Pink horse

Pink horse

Blue horse

Blue horse

Blue horse

Blue horse

A summer day - Tuscany painting landscape & frame

Vineyard foreground - Tuscany landscape painting & frame

The hamlet vineyard - Tuscany landscape painting & frame

Into the Woods

La forêt

Roccapina