Art (Arboreal)

Pieter de Molijn
Village Road
1628
oil on panel
Národní Galerie, Prague

Jean-Honoré Fragonard
A Gathering at the Edge of a Wood
ca. 1770-73
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Caspar David Friedrich
Noon
ca. 1810
oil on canvas
Landesmuseum, Hannover

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek
Summer Landscape
1837
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Paul Flandrin
Banks of the Gardon
1850
oil on canvas
Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban

Hippolyte Flandrin
La Solitude
1857
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Thomas Moran
On the Catawissa Creek
1862
oil on canvas
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia

Henri-Joseph Harpignies
Fishing in a Pond
1866
oil on canvas
Seattle Art Museum

Otto Försterling
In the Pine Forest
1867
etching and drypoint
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Hippolyte Boulenger
Josaphat Valley at Schaarbeek
1868
oil on canvas
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

George Vicat Cole
At Arundel, Sussex
1887
oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum

Henri-Joseph Harpignies
Ilex Trees, Villefranche
1889
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Charles Conder
An Apple Orchard in Brittany
1902
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Daniel Garber
Towering Trees
1911
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Carl Gustaf Rosenberg
Vrams Gunnarstorp Castle, Skåne
ca. 1928
gelatin silver print
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Duncan Grant
Landscape with Statue
1952
oil on board
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

Sam Contis
Arbor
2014
inkjet print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Paragraphs from Blake's MS. Book concerning his picture 

of The Last Judgment, a picture now lost

    Many Persons, such as Paine & Voltaire, with some of the Ancient Greeks, say: "we will not converse concerning Good & Evil; we will live in Paradise & Liberty."  You may do so in Spirit, but not in the Mortal Body as you pretend, till after the Last Judgment; for in Paradise they have no Corporeal & Mortal Body – that originated with the Fall & was call'd Death & cannot be removed but by a Last Judgment: while we are in the world of Mortality we Must Suffer.  The Whole Creation Groans to be deliver'd: there will always be as many Hypocrites born as Honest Men, & they will always have superior Power in Mortal Things.  You cannot have Liberty in this World without what you call Moral Virtue, & you cannot have Moral Virtue without the Slavery of that half of the Human Race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. 

    The Last Judgment is an Overwhelming of Bad Art & Science.  Mental Things are alone Real; what is call'd Corporeal, Nobody Knows of its Dwelling Place: it is in Fallacy, & its Existence an Imposture.  Where is the Existence Out of Mind or Thought?  Where is it but in the Mind of a Fool?  Some People flatter themselves that there will be no Last Judgment & that Bad Art will be adopted & mixed with Good Art.  That Error or Experiment will make a Part of Truth, & they Boast that it is its Foundation; these People flatter themselves: I will not Flatter them.  Error is Created.  Truth is Eternal.  Error, or Creation, will be Burned Up, & then, & not till Then, Truth or Eternity will appear.  It is Burnt up the Moment Men cease to behold it.  I assert for My Self that I do not behold the outward Creation & that to me it is hindrance & not Action; it is as the dirt upon my feet, No part of Me . . .   

– William Blake (ca. 1818)