The Art of Spring: Painting

The Art of Spring: 18 famous Paintings on Spring

A transition season between the frigid days of winter and the overwhelming summer heat waves, spring time is a bearer of rarely disappointing promises. Nature wakes up back to life, animals run around frolicking in search of new mates and of course! We feel so, but so much lighter!

Seasons have always inspired artists. Perpetual source of inspiration, the inmutable journey of the Earth around the sun scrolls under the marvelled senses of paintors, musicians and creators eager to eternalise the season’s charms.

Is there a clear preference for spring? So many first hand artists have shared their vision of spring : the freshness, the life, the vivid colors of the season of re-birth.  The spring spirit unfolds in notes at times cheerful, and at times nostalgic.

For artists, the arrival of spring often celebrates their love and their songs are a tribute of promised times with their cherished ones, or the spleen of a lonely heart in the beautiful season.

The beauty of nature coming back to life is also a great source of inspiration. Paintors spread nuanced colours on their canvas wheareas lyricists offer countless metaphores to appraise the beauty of the season.

We have gathered in this series of blogposts the most stunning artworks dedicated to spring, by paintors, masters of music, poets and singers alike. With strokes of colours, words, notes or verses, they have all unveiled to us the magic of springtime. We hope you will enjiy this selection.

Don't miss our other blogs :

• The Art of Spring: French Poetry 
• The Art of Spring: Music
• The Art of Spring: Songs

The Art of Spring: Painting

Take a look at the most beautiful paintings of the history dedicated to spring. Impressionism, cubism or other styles, several painters have chosen to bring to us their personal vision of spring. Enjoy!

1. Spring - Sandro Boticelli (1445-1510)

Paint on wood plank, 1482
Exhibition: Galerie des Offices de Florence

 

2. Spring - Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593)

Oil on canvas, 1573 
Exhibition: Musée du Louvre de Paris

 

3. Queen Guinevre's Maying - John Collier (1850-1934)

Oil on canvas, 1900
Exhibition: Cartwright Hall Art Gallery de Bradford

 

4. Spring - Franz Von Stuck (1863-1928)

Oil on canvas, 1909
Exhibition: Hessisches Landesmuseum de Darmstadt

 

5. Spring - François Boucher (1703-1770)

Oil on canvas, 1755
Exhibition: Frick Collection de New-York

 

6. Fishing in Spring - Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

Fishing in Spring or Clichy's Bridge (Asnières), 1887
Exhibition: Art Institute de Chicago

 

7. Nave Nave Moe - Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Nave Nave Moe or Sweet Spring
Oil on canvas, 1894
Exhibition: Musée de l'Hermitage de St-Petersbourg

 

8. Spring - Jean-François Millet (1814-1875)

Oil on canvas, between 1868-1873
Exhibition: Musée d'Orsay de Paris

 

 9. Spring - Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Also know as The Reader

Oil on canvas, 1872
Exhibition: Walters Art Museum de Baltimore

 

10. Spring in Giverny - Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Oil on canvas, 1882
Exhibition: Private collection. Available at Christie's in 2017 for $4,167,500 US dollars.

 

 11. Wineyards at Spring - André Derain (1880-1954)

Oil on canvas, 1904
Exhibtion: Kuntsmuseum de Bâles

 

 12. Spring - Pablo Picasso

Oil on canvas, 1956
Exhibition: Unknown

 

13. Spring - René Magritte (1898-1967)

Oil on canvas, circa 1965
Exhibition: Private Collection

Caught in the air, flying above a nest filled with eggs, a bird is shown against the backdrop of a pleasantly cloud-specked sky. And yet the bird is a silhouette, a cut-out, its shape filled with a foliage that appears to be a continuation of the woodland in the background in the lower portion of the painting. This picture is filled with the strangeness and poetry so unique to the vision Magritte

By the time Le printemps was painted, circa 1965, Magritte had long been filtering the visual world from his unique perspective. In this picture, Magritte has chosen a selection of simple elements bird, trees, eggs and reconfigured their properties to marvellous effect.

The interplays in Le printemps are brought into bolder relief by the title, which reinforces the notions of the verdant foliage, life, birth and rebirth introduced by the various elements depicted.

Source: Matteson Art

 

14. Spring in Essoyes - Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Huile sur toile, circa 1900
Lieu d'exposition: Musée d'Art d'Indianapolis

 

15. Spring - Marcel Raysse (Né en 1936)

Huile sur toile, tube néon et transformateur, 1963-1964
Lieu d'expostion: Menil Collection de Houston

 

16. First Days of Spring - Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Huile et collage sur panneau, 1929
Lieu d'exposition: Fondation Salvador Dali de St.Petersburg en Floride

 

17. Spring - de Dom Robert 1907-1997)

Tapisserie d'Aubusson, 1947
Musée Robert Dom

Robert Dom est le nom d''artiste de Guy de Chaunac-Lanzac

 

18. First night of Spring - Miro

Lithographie, 1981
Lieu d'exposition: Galerie Lelong & Co

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