Broadbean — Victorian Botanical Art Print

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Broadbean — Victorian Botanical Art PrintThe Victorian tradition of botanical pattern and ornament spanning wallpaper, textile, tile, and print design produced some of the most richly detailed decorative works of the 19th century. Drawing on centuries of botanical illustration and the principles of the Arts and Crafts movement, Victorian botanical patterns combine precise observation of the natural world with a decorative sensibility that remains a defining influence on British interior

His work sits at the intersection of the Arts and Crafts tradition and the Aesthetic Movement — combining a love of natural form with a painterly command of colour that gives his botanical subjects an almost jewel-like intensity

now held at the Moderna Museet Stockholm and shown at the Guggenheim New York to record-breaking audiences

They are among the most emotionally direct works in the history of art and are held at the Art Institute of Chicago and major collections worldwide

The Hasegawa school was one of the major painting lineages of Momoyama-period Japan (1568–1600) — the school of Hasegawa Tōhaku

Klee's work is held in every major modern art collection worldwide

Satanic grandeur

The tradition of Zen calligraphy (zenga) in Japan and China encompasses some of the most powerful and immediate brushwork ever produced — works by Zen monks and masters for whom the act of writing was itself a form of meditation and direct expression

and psychological depth

he worked in painting

presence over technique

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian painter widely credited as the pioneer of abstract art and one of the most influential artists of the 20th century

paradoxical statements

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