The Art of the Flower Audio Tour app for iPhone and iPad

This free audio guide includes 17 tour stops to complement highlighted works on display in the special exhibition "Van Gogh, Manet, and Matisse: The Art of the Flower." This art exhibition is co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia.

On-view at VMFA from March 21, 2015 through June 21, 2015, this exhibition explores the infusion of new spirit and meaning into the traditional genre of floral still-life painting in 19th-century France, even as the advent of modernism was radically transforming the art world.

Featured works of more than 60 flower paintings by more than 30 artists, including well-known painters such as Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Édouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri Matisse, as well as less familiar figures such as Antoine Berjon and Simon Saint-Jean.

These artists, whose careers collectively span the nineteenth century, engaged in a sophisticated reworking of traditional imagery, bringing the floral still life into dialogue with emerging models of science and commerce, and ultimately transforming the genre into a meditation on the nature of artistic representation itself.