Title of the Work of Art:

Midday in the Botanic Garden

Date of Creation:
2006

Genre:
Cityscape
Period-Movement:
Impressionism, Neo Impressionism
Technique:
Painting
Materials:
Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:
Approx 30 x 30 inches


Artwork Description:
A water lily pond in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, encircled by visitors, becomes a meditation on arrival and discovery. Painted in Chiao’s earliest years in America, when every sight was charged with novelty, the work later journeyed to Sweden, a testament to the artist’s transatlantic passage and the universality of wonder.