Spring, a moment of rebirth, has always been a source of inspiration for artists from all over the world. Here are 10 stunning and iconic paintings that celebrate the explosion of nature after winter
La spring in all its forms, even in some of the best known paintings in the world. The bright and bright colors leave the gray of winter behind us and project us towards sunny mornings and green landscapes.
Art has always paid homage to spring. Flowers are magical because of their evocative function and their symbolism. A changeable, precarious, fragile and delicate nature that offers ideas to artists and painters who do nothing but bring back to canvas what has always already existed.
Always a source of inspiration, here are ten beautiful paintings that are poetry for our eyes.
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Monet, Monet's Garden in Giverny
Monet's garden in Giverny is an oil painting on canvas made in 1900, preserved in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The painting en plain air, typical of the Impressionist movement, finds its widest realization in Monet, in the canvas there is not a wild nature, but a nature designed meticulously by the artist himself.
Van Gogh, Sunflowers
The Sunflowers are a series of oil paintings on canvas made between 1888 and 1889 by the painter Vincent van Gogh. There are five of them and are distributed in as many museums, across the globe. Every year five million people stop in front of the opera with enchanted eyes.
Gyoshu Hayami, Cherry Blossoms in One Night
Extraordinary Hanami also in the works of art thanks to the Japanese artist Hayami who created the work a year before his untimely death.It seems that this tree represents his life.
Renoir, Bouquet of Chrysanthemums
Bouquet de Chrysanthèmes is an autographed painting by Renoir, the chrysanthemums are distinguished from the others by the use of flowers, all of the same type, in a plain-colored vase with a simplified shape. For Renoir, as it had been for Monet, the moment of nature arrives.
Georgia O’Keeffe, Oriental Poppies
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American painter and her art is associated with precisionism, it is no coincidence that her Orienta Poppies look like a photograph. She has painted several subjects, but her most important creations are those with the representation of flowers and landscapes mostly desert hills strewn with rocks.
Andy Warhol, Flowers
Versatile and ingenious, Andy Warhol also painted flowers. Flowers consists of ten screen prints based on photographs taken by Patricia Caulfield that were published in the June 1964 issue of Modern Photography magazine. Warhol makes the photographs their own by flattening and cropping the flowers, adding vibrant, contrasting colors to the square prints.
William Morris, Wandle
William Morris was an English textile designer who was instrumental in the revival of traditional British arts and manufacturing methods. His designs were often based on natural shapes, many of which were flowers. In fact, of his nearly 600 designs, very few do not feature flowers, leaves, trees or plants.
Manet, Vase of Lilac
The impressionist painter creates many floral paintings, for a total of 20 still lifes, most produced in the last year of his life. Towards the end of his life, Manet painted the very flowers that his friends had brought to his bedside.
Katsushika Hokusai, Trentasei viste del Monte Fuji
Another extraordinary Japanese artist who painted nature was Katsushika Hokusai, best known for his wood prints of Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which brought him national and international recognition.
Clementine Hunter, Zinnias in a Pot
Self-taught folk artist Hunter depicts Southern plantation landscapes. The varied arrangements of zinnias is a subject she really enjoys. She captures a bouquet of flowers in a flat perspective against a vibrant yellow background. The flowers have a simple beauty and liveliness.
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