Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Jean-Honoré Fragonard
(1732 - 1806)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Honoré_Fragonard

The Swing
1767-68
Oil on canvas
81 × 64 cm 
The Wallace Collection, London
https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org:443/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=65364&viewType=detailView 

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Grant Wood
(1891 - 1942)

Grant DeVolson Wood was an American artist and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for American Gothic (1930), which has become an iconic example of early 20th-century American art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Wood


Spring in town
1941
Oil on canvas
66 x62 cm
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana
https://hub.catalogit.app/swope-art-museum/entry/spring-in-town?query=grant%20wood

Monday, April 13, 2026

Giuseppe Arcimboldo
(1527 - 1593)
 
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, also spelled Arcimboldi was an Italian Mannerist painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo


Spring
1573
oil on canvas
118.4 x 188.5 cm
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain

The Seasons or The Four Seasons is a set of four paintings produced in 1563, 1572 and 1573 by the Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. He offered the set to Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1569, accompanying The Four Elements. Each shows a profile portrait made up of fruit, vegetables and plants relating to the relevant season. The set was accompanied by a poem by Giovanni Battista Fonteo (1546–1580) explaining their allegorical meaning. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(Arcimboldo)

Sunday, April 12, 2026

Jean-François Millet
(1814 - 1875)
 
Jean-François Millet was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes. He is known best for his oil paintings but is also noted for his pastels, Conté crayon drawings, and etchings.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-François_Millet


Potato Planters
1861
Oil on canvas
101.3 cm 82,5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31621

Saturday, April 11, 2026

Vincent van Gogh
(1853 - 1890 )
 
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh
 

Almond Blossoms
1890
Oil on canvas
73.5 x 92 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0176V1962

Almond Blossoms is a group of several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Saint-Rémy, southern France of blossoming almond trees. Flowering trees were special to van Gogh. They represented awakening and hope. He enjoyed them aesthetically and found joy in painting flowering trees. The works reflect the influence of Impressionism, Divisionism, and Japanese woodcuts. Almond Blossom was made to celebrate the birth of his nephew and namesake, son of his brother Theo and sister-in-law Jo. 

Friday, April 10, 2026

Édouard Manet
(1832 – 1883)
 

Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édouard_Manet

Spring
1881
Oil on canvas
74 x 51.5 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles


Spring is an 1881 oil-on-canvas painting by Édouard Manet, it depicts Parisian actress Jeanne DeMarsy in a floral dress with parasol and bonnet against a background of lush foliage and blue sky, as the embodiment of Spring. The painting also became the first work of art ever to be published in color.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(Manet)

Thursday, April 9, 2026

 Evelyn De Morgan
 (1855–1919)

Evelyn De Morgan was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and working in a range of styles including Aestheticism and Symbolism. Her paintings are figural, foregrounding the female body through the use of spiritual, mythological, and allegorical themes. They rely on a range of metaphors (such as light and darkness, transformation, and bondage) to express what several scholars have identified as spiritualist and feminist content. Her later works also dealt with the themes of war from a pacifist perspective, engaging with conflicts such as the Second Boer War and World War I. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_De_Morgan

Flora
1894
Oil on canvas
199 x 88 cm
Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmingham-west-midlands/wightwick-manor-and-gardens


 

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