Painting flowers in the Age of Impressionism

During the 1800s, the Still Life genre was gaining the approval of contemporary critics and the public.

Perhaps the best way to appreciate the context of these paintings is to try to understand the attitudes and thoughts of the artists themselves.

The following evocative quotes from Manet, Renoir, Van Gogh,and others provide fascinating insight into how these artists felt about floral painting and the still life genre in general.

Maurice de Vlaminck | Paysages

Maurice De Vlaminck (1876-1958) was a French painter.

He is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve Movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904-1908 were united in their use of intense color.

Vlaminck was born in Paris of ‘bohemian’ musical parents and he in turn became an accomplished musician.

Alceste Campriani (1848-1933) Genre painter

Alceste Campriani was an Italian painter🎨 noted for his landscapes, especially of the Neapolitan countryside.

He was born in Terni from a noble family. His father's political attachment to the cause of Italy prompted his arrest by Papal officers.

This led to economic difficulties for the Campriani family. He was enrolled in the Naples Institute of Fine arts, but he proved recalcitrant to academic discipline, and abandoned the institute to paint on his own.

Chuck Pinson, 1978 | Romantic painter

The dramatic and popular landscape art of Chuck Pinson takes you away to inspiring and uplifting places. It's art to dive into and drift away.

Chuck has a unique God-given, ability to create beautiful scenes that transport you to idyllic places and offer a bit of peace in the midst of this often chaotic world.

His love of beauty, nature, nostalgia, and the ethereal comes through in his dramatic interpretations of the beauty we experience and perceive around us.

Whether it's the depiction of friendly communities, times past by, or the grandeur of the countryside, Chuck wants to bring you to the place where you can feel the water flowing, hear the birds chirping, and almost touch the soft grass or colorful blooms, so that you can sit back, relax and dream.

Ruane Manning, 1939 | Scenery painter

Ruane Manning was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA.

His love for art brought him to study at the Art Institute of Philadelphia which led him to become a Commercial Illustrator.

While doing such, he witnessed the development of the Flyers Logo as well as the first Barbie Doll, developed by the Mel Richman Studios.

By the age of 20, he became a published artist with his prints being sold world wide...

George Redhawk | Surrealist Animated GIFs Art

American artist🎨 George Redhawk creates eerily beautiful gifs even though he's legally blind.

With help from computer software, the designer utilizes the art of gif-making to show others how he sees the world as a man who suddenly lost his sight.

"It’s an artistic expression of the confusion I go through with my vision loss", Redhawk told The Creators Project. "Not enough data getting sent to the brain, and it tries to fill in the blanks with false information, so you can’t trust what your eyes or brain are telling you".

The result is an impressive collection of moving art, called The World Through My Eyes !

George Dunlop Leslie | Genre painter

George Dunlop Leslie (1835-1921) was an British Genre painter, author and illustrator.

Leslie was born into an artistic family, his father was the notable genre painter Charles Robert Leslie RA, and his uncle Robert Leslie was a marine artist.

He studied art first at Cary's Art Academy, then from 1854 at the Royal Academy. His first exhibition at the Academy was in 1859 and he showed his work every year thereafter. He became an Associate (ARA) in 1868 and a full Royal Academician (RA) in 1876.

Salon de Paris, 1667-1890 | Art History

Hubert Robert | The Grande Galerie of the Louvre, 1801

The Salon de Paris beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

For almost 150 years (c.1740-1890), the Salon was the most prestigious annual or biannual art event in the world.

As a result, its influence on French painting - in particular artistic style, painterly conventions and the reputation of artists - was enormous.

At the 1761 Salon, thirty-three painters, nine sculptors, and eleven engravers contributed.

From 1881 onward, it has been managed by the Société des Artistes Français.