THE KOSMOS OF NATURE IN THE CONTEXT OF ART: AN ARTISTIC APPROACH TO THE REPRESENTATION OF THE NATURAL LANDSCAPE
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhshreejan.v3.i1.2026.70Keywords:
Artistic Representation, Creativity, Nature, Environmental History, LandscapeAbstract [English]
This study focuses on the representation of nature throughart, with the aim of analysing various artistic and cultural practices in which scholars and environmentalists have sought to understand and elucidate the historical interaction between humans and the environment. Based on the methodological approach adopted, the study is occurs through the analysis of documents related to artistic, social and environmental foundations in accordance with Donald Worster’s theory that ‘environmental history and nature complement one another’. In this context, it is evident that artistic production and communicative processes have always interconnected, whether through inspiration, pictorial technique or the texture of natural materials. As a means of preserving the beauty of the natural world, photography used as a tool for exploring environmental diversity, since this artistic expression also reflects the cultural character of art. Thus, it is possible to observe that humanism was replaced by modernism, with the aim of creating innovative, avant-garde aesthetic transformations, where as in the past nature was always perpetuated by art, poetry came to convey emotions and ideas.
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