Painting with Joy

My Artist
Family Tree

The painters whose DNA flows through my work — in color, gesture, process, and feeling. Click any artist to discover exactly how they connect to what I make today.

Joy Charde
Watercolor · Mixed Media · Florals
Bold Color DNA
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch · 1853–1890
Post-Impressionism
Henri Matisse
French · 1869–1954
Fauvism
Pierre Bonnard
French · 1867–1947
Post-Impressionism
August Macke
German · 1887–1914
Expressionism
Dreamy Floral DNA
Odilon Redon
French · 1840–1916
Symbolism
Gabriele Münter
German · 1877–1962
Expressionism
Charles Demuth
American · 1883–1935
American Modernism
Joyful Gesture DNA
Raoul Dufy
French · 1877–1953
Fauvism
Claude Monet
French · 1840–1926
Impressionism
Watercolor Process DNA
Emil Nolde
German-Danish · 1867–1956
Expressionism
John Singer Sargent
American · 1856–1925
Impressionism
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    Paul Cézanne
    French · 1839–1906
    Post-Impressionism
    Henri Fantin-Latour
    French · 1836–1904
    Realism
    Alexej von Jawlensky
    Russian/German · 1864–1941
    Expressionism
    Mary Cassatt
    American · 1844–1926
    Impressionism