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)

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

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. 

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)

 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

 

 Hilma af Klint
(1862 - 1944)
 

Hilma af Klint (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhɪ̂lːma ˈɑːv ˈklɪnːt]; 26 October 1862 – 21 October 1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered to be among the first major abstract works in Western art history. A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich, and Mondrian. She belonged to a group called "The Five", a circle of women inspired by Theosophy who shared a belief in the importance of trying to contact the "High Masters", often through séances. Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas.

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

The Ten Largest
(1907-1908)
Oil and tempera on paper
Each painting 238 x 240 cm
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/hilma-af-klint-de-tio-storsta-2022/

In September 1907, Hilma af Klint made note of a vision foretelling that ‘ten paradisaically beautiful paintings’ were to be executed that would ‘give the world a glimpse’ of the stages of life. The following month, she began work on The ten largest.
Predominantly abstract, these monumental paintings represent four stages of human development: childhood, youth, adulthood and old age. Botanical references convey her view of humanity’s connection to the natural world. Words invented by the artist, or received from spirits, appear throughout, sometimes as wildly looping text.
Each composition took only four days to paint. Following instruction from spirit guides, af Klint requested that Cornelia Cederberg – a fellow artist and member of the spiritualist group The Five – assist in their creation, though under af Klint’s direction. 
Because of their size, the works were most likely created on the studio floor – a radical departure from the easel painting conventions of the day. Af Klint intended the paintings to be hung together in a spiral temple, creating what she described as a ‘beautiful wall covering’.

www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artboards/hilma/the-ten-largest/

Inshō Dōmoto
(1891–1975)

 Inshō Dōmoto (堂本 印象) was a Japanese Nihonga artist. His birth name was Sannosuke Dōmoto. At a young age, he started working for Heizo Tatsumura I. At the age of 28, he was exhibited with his work "Landscape of Fukakusa". His 1961 "Symphony" is considered one of his most famous paintings.

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

Princess Konohanasakuya
1929
Pigment on silk, two folding screen
238 x 170 cm
Kyoto Prefectural Domoto-Insho Museum of Fine Arts, Kyoto, Japan

Princess Konohanasakuya is a goddess mentioned in the Kojiki, the oldest existing chronicle in Japan dating from the early 8th century. She is said to have been as beautiful as konohana (a flower).