Spring is here - an art thread🧵
1. Primavera by Sandro Botticelli (1470-80s)
2. Springtime by Pierre Auguste Cot (1873)
This piece depicts a young couple locked in an embrace on a swing amid a forest or garden.
The two seems lost in each other, described by an art expert as "drunken with first love".
3. Spring by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1573)
4. Springtime by Claude Monet (1872)
5. The Soul of the Rose by John William Waterhouse (1908)
6. The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1767)
The painting shows a stylish young woman on a swing, her dress billowing as she kicks off a shoe.
A young man, grinning and partly hidden in the bushes, gestures toward her with his hat, while another man pushes the swing.
7. Spring by Jean-François Millet (1868–73)
8. Les Iris by Vincent van Gogh (1889)
9. Spring by Francisco Goya (1786)
10. Jeanne (Spring) by Edouard Manet (1881)
11. Spring in Giverny by Claude Monet (1890)
In 1883, Monet settled in Giverny, a village north of Paris, where he created his famous garden and painted this landscape.
The green in the foreground draws attention to the trees, partially revealing the white walls of a house.
12. Spring at Catou by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1872)
13. Spring by Alphonse Mucha (1894)
14. Plum Trees in Blossom, Éragny by Camille Pissarro (1894)
15. Almond Blossoms by Vincent van Gogh (1890)
In mid-March 1888 van Gogh writes of the weather and how the almond trees are coming into full bloom:
"The weather here is changeable, often windy with turbulent skies, but the almond trees are beginning to flower everywhere."
Botticelli's "Spring" is one of the most iconic paintings in Western art.
It depicts a group of figures from classical mythology in a garden.
The piece's meaning has been debated for centuries, but is generally seen as an allegory of the "burgeoning fertility of the world."
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One more: Phantasy by William Savage Cooper (1896)
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