Flowers in the Art Garden
Everywhere you look in the art garden you will see flowers. Just wonderful color. Every little nook and cranny: Pop art, Outsider, Surrealism, Fauve, Expressionist, Realism, and Impressionism, like Claude Monet. No name pops up faster when you hear the word, “flowers.”
But for pure excitement, I think of Charles Burchfield.
For classic American style I may look to Georgia O’Keefe.
There are millions of lesser-known painters like Jay Peterzell, and unknown artists who have been painting flowers for centuries. It’s about color and life…and blooming. That’s the exciting part, watching life stick its fingers up through the soil, and then, there it is, the bright smile in unlimited shades of glory.
Yes, Spring is here and everywhere I look I see flowers: tulips, salvia, hyacinth and pansies that have survived the winter. I go a little crazy at our local nursery. It is hard to say no to a white dahlia, a purple Bordeaux petunia, or a redder than red geranium. It’s my way of avoiding all the unpleasantness in the world and leaving PTSD as submerged as possible. Stay still, trauma! Its tulip time.
love this one. I hope to get a full size picture on my screen of these pics. Intense color. And the real world outside aint doin so bad either. The flox on my front hill finally did its thing this year. Yay. Thanks as always.
brobri
I think the power of the Spring flowers that you love so much transcends their great beauty. It is that they manage to re-emerge after harsh winters, from little brown seeds and bulbs that break through hard soil to see the Sun, they emerge to unlock all the beauty encoded within, playing their part in the vast ocean of LOVE expressed in radiant color, scent, and beauty expressive of a harmony orchestrated throughout the Cosmos. Everywhere, even in us. THANK YOU SOOOOO