Post by cierlmeyrin on Oct 22, 2011 0:52:54 GMT -5
Flower Paintings are an attempt to capture the beauty of flowers in a visual poetry. Flowers, as poets have long written, are very much like us...or we like them. All living things have a time of bloom and fresh beauty, a fulfillment. Boats Paintings Painters like Monet (water-lilies) and Van Gogh (sunflowers), have successfully managed to express emotions through flowers. Many other painters have attempted to do so with varying degrees of success.
People Paintings The flowers of Georgia O'Keeffe were both seductive and repulsive. This American Master had the ability to play with colors in the most intriguing manner. O'Keeffe began painting flowers in 1918, Building Paintings but it was not until 1924, the year in which she and Stieglitz were married, that she produced the first of the magnified flowers with which she is most frequently associated. "A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower - the idea of flowers. Oil Paintings for sale Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.