![]() ![]() Though spring comes around September in Australia, here is a look at the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens in 1903. 1903, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia. Richard Godfrey Rivers, Under the Jacaranda, ca. There are two women dressed in lehengas filling their baskets with flowers. This painting is in a traditional miniature format that belongs to a larger manuscript and is possibly from the early 18th-century royal Bilaspur court in Northern India.Īs we can see, the painting depicts a burgeoning springtime landscape with abundant flowers all around. Spring or vasant has long been revered as a time of love, music, and celebration in Hindu mythology, and is particularly associated with the Hindu God Krishna. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. Vasanti Ragini, Page from a Ragamala Series ( Garland of Musical Modes), ca. This spring landscape painting depicts the rural Scandinavian countryside in the month of May with the vivid lilacs in full bloom. Mutual Art.īorn after the end of the Danish Golden Age, Peder Mork Mønsted was a celebrated Danish painter who gained much acclaim for his serene and poetic plein-air (open-air) paintings of the Danish and Scandinavian landscape and coastlines. Peder Mork Mønsted, Springtime Lilacs, 1912, private collection. This painting by Yoshida, however, depicts traditional Japanese subjects and focuses on possibly the most beautiful aspects of spring in Japan – the Sakura trees. Yoshida traveled all over the world and created several woodblock-style renderings of non-Japanese subjects. He was one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style and renowned for his landscape prints. Hiroshi Yoshida was an accomplished Japanese painter and woodblock-style printmaker from the 20th century. ![]() 1920, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Spain. This spring landscape painting is one of the many views of the gardens of his home in Madrid, which is now the Sorolla Museum. Though his works show the unmistakable influence of Impressionists, Sorolla considered himself stylistically similar to John Singer Sargent and Anders Zorn. Sorolla was known for his luminous compositions and radiant color palette. Google Arts & Culture.Ĭlaude Monet has rightly described Joaquín Sorolla as the “Master of Light”. Joaquín Sorolla, The Gardens at the Sorolla Family House, ca. This painting shows a view of the large courtyard of the Mehoffer home in the full bloom of spring. The Mehoffer House has been open to the public since 1996 as a museum branch dedicated to the artist. The house has a charming, old-fashioned look and was elegantly furnished by the artist himself.Īfter his death, the family dedicated the Mehoffer house to the State Treasury, and it was eventually transferred to the National Museum in Krakow. Józef Mehoffer was one of the most revered Polish artists of his time, and his house in Jankowka near Kraków is an important part of his legacy. Józef Mehoffer, Manor House and Garden in Jankowka, ca. It blooms abundantly in spring in central and southern Texas. He is known for his breathtaking renderings of the Texan landscape scattered with bluebonnets, such as this one.īluebonnets are the official state flower of Texas known for their rich color and the resemblance of their petal to a woman’s bonnet. This beautiful spring landscape painting is by Julian Onderdonk, an Impressionist painter from Texas who has been called the father of Texas painting. 1919, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA. Julian Onderdonk, Early Spring-Bluebonnets and Mesquite, ca. Let’s take a journey all over the world through the eyes of these artists. ![]() The melting away of the cold winter and burgeoning of new life in every corner hints at new beginnings and a fresh start. Spring has inspired artists from all over the world for generations. ![]()
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