Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(1841 - 1919)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (/rɛnˈwɑːr/;[1] French: [pjɛʁ oɡyst ʁənwaʁ]; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. It has been said that, as a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir

Spring Bouquet
1866
Oil on canvas
80 × 104 cm
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, United States
https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/303729

Alma Thomas
(1891 - 1978)
 

Alma Woodsey Thomas was an African-American artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. She is the first African-American woman to be included in the White House's permanent art collection. Thomas is best known for the "exuberant", colorful, abstract paintings that she created after she retired from a 35-year career teaching art at Washington's Shaw Junior High School.

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

Spring Fantasy
1964
transparent watercolor with brush and blue and black inks on wove paper 
75.8 × 56.2 cm
National Gallery of Art
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/179992-spring-fantasy

Pierre Auguste Cot
(1837 - 1883)
 

Pierre Auguste Cot was a French painter of the Academic Classicism school.


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

Le Printemps (Springtime)
1873
Oil in canvas
211.6 × 127.8 cm.
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438158

Claude Monet
(1840 –1926)

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon. 

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

The Flowered Meadow
1885
Oil on canvas
65 × 80.5 cm
Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
https://sammlung.museum-barberini.de/en/MB-Mon-20_claude-monet-the-flowered-meadow

David Hockney
(b. 1973)

David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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

The arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven)
2011
Oil on canvas
32 x 91 x121 cm, Total: 365 x 975 cm
Private collection

 

 

 Utagawa Hiroshige
(1797 - 1858)
 

Utagawa Hiroshige born Andō Tokutarō, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.

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

Cherry Blossoms at Arashiyama, from the series Famous Places of Kyōto
ca. 1834
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
23.8 x 36.8 cm 
The MET, New York
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/36515

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 

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

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).

 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.

Berthe Morisot
(1841 - 1895)

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.

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

Peasant Girl Among Tulips
1890
Oil on canvas
65 x 73 cm
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, United States

http://collections.dixon.org/objects/282/peasant-girl-among-tulips?ctx=75edbdc11d560584df65b11b942a60cd9e4ef19c&idx=1 

Sandro Botticelli 
(c. 1445 - 1510)

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi better known as Sandro Botticelli or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of late Italian Gothic and some Early Renaissance painting, even though they date from the latter half of the Italian Renaissance period. 

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

Primavera (Spring)
Late 1470s
tempera on panel
202 x 314 cm
Uffizi, Florence
https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/botticelli-spring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primavera_(Botticelli)