San Giorgio Maggiore At Dusk by Claude Monet topsy

San Giorgio Maggiore At Dusk by Claude Monet topsyThis is a stunning masterpiece showing an island of Venice known as San Giorgio Maggiore basking in the orange rays of a sunset dusk with foregrounded water rippling reflection from the sky. The typical lack of sharp definition is replaced with the use of blurred but precise application of browns for the towers on island, and yellows and oranges for the sky and its reflection on the water, and tapering off to the edges of blue sky and water. This is a

Van Gogh painted numerous landscapes while usually working outside

The presence of many small sail boats make highlight the focus on the rich red boats

The land and sky are separated by a thin light-blue band

Girl wth Red Baloon

This Post-Impression master work shows lavender irises in Monet's garden which is awash with drenching colour of ochre browns and oranges of trees overhanging rows of lavender irises and tan flowers

The Harvest by Van Gogh is possibly the best landscape of his entire work

blues and tans

and blue and green on the blanket

Australian Cockatoo Tropical Perch captures the striking beauty of a native cockatoo resting among lush greenery

Santorini Coastline

and the local clergy had warned people to avoid him

waiting to pounce on the beast in "Waiting for a Chinook" by Marion Russell