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

Summer Memories

Warm Echoes

Kotor

Reflection of Summer

Frosty Evening

Mount Stand

Prayer for Ukraine

Winter's Last Breaths

Do you see the same thing than me?

Poppies and Peace

Subsidence

City scape Watercolor painting Moscow city

Watercolor Moscow Watercolor Cityscape

Il Vittoriano

Night life

After winter Watercolor landscape

Blooming rhododendron

Horizons tranquilles

The last rays

Day in Saint-Petersburg Watercolor cityscape

Rain in the city Watercolor cityscape

One day in the village

Spring light Watercolor landscape

Winter sunset

Poppy's Palette

A travers le rosier

Landscape II

Danse et jeunesse

Place des cordeliers, Lyon

Timesquare

Yellow and red N.Y

Avenue N.Y

Brooklyn Bridge

Manhattan

Hudson River NY

Evening Times Square

Tuscan vineyards

Arcachon n°28 (paysage bord de mer, vagues, plage)

Hot summer day

Dolomite Alps

Dolomite Alps

Arcachon n°19 (vagues, mer, océan)

Serenade of the Serene Lake

Positano coast

Evening lights of Brooklyn Bridge

Dance of water and mountains

Evening Brooklyn Bridge

Los Angeles night lights

Evening Mont Saint Michel

Summer evening

Mallow

Magnificent Amalfi Coast

Santa Maria della Salute

Morning by the river

Panorama of the island of Capri

Evening by the river

Shining on the river

Midday

Evening inspiration

After the rain

Genese

Parti pris III

Rejeter les idées noires

Petra, le trésor immergé

Barto

Kler