Van Gogh - Irises, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
During the summer of 2016 on my visit to my cousins in LA, I had the unusual but delighting opportunity to visit the Getty Museum. Over the course of my visit, Van Gogh's Irises was unequivocally the art-piece I was centered on for quite some time. After purchasing "Irises" by Jennifer Helvey and reading the book after my trip to L.A. I grew fascinated by the emotional and also physical depth of the painting. I already knew that Van Gogh was a troubled man who sent himself to an asylum to prevent his madness but the solace and exuberance is displayed so much in Irises. It is why I find it so powerfully compelling.

The Card Players - Cezanne

This is the Mont Sainte-Victoire painted by Paul Cezanne. Perhaps the most intriguing thing to me about his style is his tinkering of space and spatial illusions. Many of his paintings are deliberately sketchy to convey a message of perspective and depth.

One of my favourite works from Claude Monet - cliff walk at pourville. The built up paint, attention to detail, wind blowing against the female subjects. It's all very breathtaking and luminous.

Claude Monet, La Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877, oil on canvas, 75 x 104 cm (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) "In their landscapes and genre scenes, the Impressionist tried to arrest a particular moment in time by pinpointing specific atmospheric conditions—light flickering on water, moving clouds, a burst of rain. Their technique tried to capture what they saw. They painted small commas of pure color one next to another. When viewer stood at a reasonable distance their eyes would see a mix of individual marks; colors that had blended optically. This method created more vibrant colors than colors mixed as physical paint on a palette. "(Khan Academy)

The Reconstruction of Paris. | The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, 1897, oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81.3 cm (Metropolitam Museum of Art, New York)

Roustam Nour’s masterpiece is punctuated by easily recognizable New York City icons - the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. Midtown New York is gently illuminated by the light that rises up from the busy streets. Beyond the spires, the New York Bay frames the city in the distance.