One of the art movements that is most predisposed to depictions of picnics is the Rococo, which is not coincidentally also one of the most frivolous art movements of all time. Watteau's "Les Champs-Elysees" is a fine example of this.
Clearly one of the most famous examples of picnic art would be Edouard Manet's "Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe."
The predecessor to this charming picnic display dates back to the High Renaissance, with Giorgone's "Fete Champetre," another depiction of naked Ladies picnicking with bohemian fellows. The lesson we are supposed to take away regarding proper picnics is quite clear from these two images, but I don't think we are quite ready for that just yet.
For a more modern look at picnics in art, we could turn to the work of the Colombian artist, Fernando Botero. His picnics seem to be more our speed, with a tendency towards drinking, smoking, and napping.
However, the contemporary artist who perhaps captures the picnic atmosphere that we would most like to emulate is Vladimir Pervuninsky, a Russian whose paintings would seem just as relevant hundreds of years ago as they do today, much like our picnics. Behold "A Picnic in the Pink Garden," painted in 2007, for example.
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