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

Jour de tempête

Subjective landscape.

Un lac déborde

Vue du ciel

Les arbres vivants

Les jardins de Fontainebleau

La baie

Douceur des neiges

Empreinte, Chauvet, France, 2023

Campervan seen from the water

Tapestry of green hues

Born to Stand Out

Made to Be Different

Experimental Landscape - Jaune Diarylide

Experimental Landscape - Purple Helios

Experimental Landscape - Rock Formations

Canigó

Summer painting II

Golden mist

Night landscape

Between clouds

Downpour

Avatar Tree

Ephemeral Elegance

Breath of the Sunrise (ready to hang)

Coucher de soleil

Bloom

Orange Tree

Experimental Landscape | Rock Formation, Flowers

Experimental Landscape | Monochrome PLUM

Recueillement

Paysage 242

Paysage Zen 7

Paysage Zen 5

Trees of stillness 02

Trees of stillness 01

A Moment of Bliss

Spring symphony#1

Cascade

Pleasure Garden

Gamin à la lance

Way to the sun

Autumn mood

Red sun

Boys and girls online

African circle

You and me forever

Gamins en ligne

American trails

Ciel 13

Paysage chinois

Nymphéas bleu

A l'ombre des pins

Paysages de Chine 22

Wealth of Autumn.

The_bog_renatured_11

Bouleau - Loving trees N°4

Jungle greenhouse

Cap Coz - Ombre brûlée / bleu outremer

Flower Field 17

West Lake

Lithosphere 205

Out of the blue 02

Find an Hotel Tree 1

Meadown

Bay of Kotor

Beautiful Day

Belgian Forest