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).

 Lawrence Alma-Tadema
(1836 –1912)

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema OM, RA, RWS was a Dutch painter who later settled in the United Kingdom, becoming the last officially recognised denizen in 1873. Born in Dronryp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in London, England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Alma-Tadema

Spring
1894
oil on canvas
178.4 × 80.3 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, L.A.
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RC9

Spring is an 1894 oil-on-canvas painting by the Anglo-Dutch artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema, which has been in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California, since 1972. The painting relates the Victorian custom of children collecting flowers on May Day back to an Ancient Roman spring festival, perhaps Cerealia or Floralia or Ambarvalia, although the details depicted in the painting do not correspond to any single Roman festival. It was the inspiration for the scene of Julius Caesar's triumphal entry into Rome in the 1934 film Cleopatra. 

Rembrandt
(1606 -1669)
 

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art. It is estimated that Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and several hundred drawings. 

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

Flora
1634
Oil on panel
125 x 101
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/digital-collection/43371?lng=en

Georgia O'Keeffe
(1887 - 1986)
 

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers, hills and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe

Spring
1948
Oil on canvas
122.5 x 214 cm
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe
https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/exhibitions/spotlight-on-spring/

 Damien Hirst
(b. 1965)

Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist and art collector. He was one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at US$384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.

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

Spring Blossoms Blooming
2019
Oil on panel
Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA), Munich
https://www.muca.eu/en/cherry-blossoms/
Hirst's "Spring Blossoms Blooming" from 2019 was on display in the "The Weight of Things" exhibition in the MUCA Halls from 26 October 2023 to 24 November 2024.

The "Cherry Blossoms" series by Damien Hirst comprises a total of 107 large-format canvases. With this series, Hirst reinterprets the traditional and popular theme of flower depiction with cheerful irony.