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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 . 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. Various cultures have a tradition of Flower Paintings. Lotus Flowers in Chinese Paintings Lotuses are of great significance to the Chinese they symbolize creativity amidst adversity. Summer is also heralded with a lotus bloom. Chinese painters have through the ages tried the represent this flower in all its glory. Such was their proliferation that a special school of lotus paintings was developed. 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, 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. 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. So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers." | ||
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