Around the world through famous spring paintings

America

This beautiful spring painting is by Julian Onderdonk, an Impressionist painter from Texas who is known as the father of Texas painting. He is known for his breathtaking paintings of Texas landscapes filled with bluebonnets.

Blue cap flowers are the state flower of Texas. They grow in the arid lands of the American West, but are very resilient. Every year in early April, vast fields of blue cap flowers begin to bloom in Central and South Texas, captivatingly beautiful.

Poland

Józef Mehoffer was one of the most respected Polish artists of his time, and his house in Jankówka near Kraków is an important part of his legacy. It has a charming old-world style and was tastefully furnished by the artist himself.

After his death, his family donated the Mehoffer House to the State Treasury, and it eventually became the property of the National Museum in Kraków. The Mehoffer House opened to the public in 1996 as a museum dedicated to the artist. This painting shows the courtyard of the Mehoffer House in full bloom in spring.

Spain

Claude Monet described Joaquín Sorolla as the "Master of Light." Sorolla was known for his bright compositions and radiant color palette. Although his work shows unmistakable Impressionist influences, Sorolla considered himself stylistically similar to John Singer Sargent and Anders Zorn.

This painting, painted in the spring of 1920, is one of several views of his garden in Madrid, now the Sorolla Museum.

Japan

Hiroshi Yoshida was a successful Japanese artist and woodblock printmaker of the 20th century. He was one of the greatest shin-hanga painters and is best known for his landscape prints. Yoshida traveled around the world and created a number of woodblock prints on subjects outside Japan.

However, this painting by Yoshida depicts traditional Japanese themes and focuses on the beauty of spring in Japan - the cherry trees.

Denmark

Born after the end of Denmark's Golden Age, Peder Mork Mønsted was a famous Danish painter, acclaimed for his serene and poetic paintings of Danish and Scandinavian landscapes and coastlines. This painting depicts the bucolic Scandinavian countryside in May with blooming lilacs.

India

Spring orVasanthas long been revered as a time of love, music, and celebration in Hindu mythology, and is particularly associated with the god Krishna. This painting is a miniature version of a larger work, which belonged to the early 18th-century Bilaspur court in northern India.

The painting depicts a vibrant spring landscape with two women dressed in lehengas picking flowers and putting them in baskets.

Australia

This painting of Brisbane Botanic Gardens in Spring 1903 was painted in September, the time of spring in Australia. R. Godfrey Rivers, a British artist working in Australia at the time, depicted him and his wife, Selena, drinking tea under a tall and magnificent jacaranda tree in full bloom.

This jacaranda tree is very special because it was one of the first jacaranda trees planted in Australia from seeds imported from South America in 1864. Many jacaranda trees in the suburbs of Brisbane today are descendants of this first jacaranda tree.

Older brother

Bluebells are one of the most beautiful wildflowers in the world. From mid-April to the end of May, millions of bluebells grow close together like a carpet, covering the forests in England. This flower appears in forests all over Europe but is most beautiful in the warm climate of South West England. It can be said that the carpet of bluebells blooming in the painting by Benjamin Williams Leader is an iconic image of the brilliant and fragrant spring in England.

His early works tended to focus more on elaborate and meticulous details, while Benjamin Williams Leader's later works were more Impressionist in style and were more popular.

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This airy and fresh scene conveys a sense of optimism and serenity in the midst of an Italian spring. It is the work of Russian master painter Isaac Ilyich Levitan, who was renowned for his extraordinary and varied landscape paintings. Although he died at the young age of 40, he created an impressive legacy of hundreds of works of art that continue to inspire generations to come.

France

This idyllic spring scene is set in rural France in 1890. Although there are no people in sight, the house and courtyard columns in the background add to the rustic charm. This painting of peaceful rural bliss is by Robert Vonnoh, one of the first American painters to explore Impressionism, known for his landscapes.

After beginning his art studies in Boston, Vonnoh moved to Paris around the 1800s. Around the late 1880s, Vonnoh settled in the art colony of Grèz-sur-Loing, south of Fontainebleau.

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