Exploring Identity Through Landscape

This research paper investigates how landscapes in visual art serve as a medium to explore personal and collective identity. The study focuses on both Indian and Western traditions, ex-amining the symbolic, emotional, and cultural meanings em-bedded in landscape painting. Through a detailed analysis of prominent artists and their works, the paper argues that land-scape is not merely a representation of the natural world but a deeply personal expression of the self, society, and history. While artists like Vincent van Gogh and Casper David Frie-drich used natural scenes to express inner turmoil, solitude or hope .By studying both Indian and Western landscape tradi-tions, the research shows how artists across cultures have used nature as a tool for storytelling and self –discovery . This pa-per presents a journey where the outer world of nature be-comes a mirror to the inner world of the artist.