After fruit, flowers may be the most frequent objects depicted in still-life paintings. If you type “still life flowers,” in the Images search engine of Google, you will be rewarded with pages and pages of images from galleries all over the world that are selling paintings of flowers in a vase.
The vase is important to [...]
Archive for September, 2008
The Painted Flower
Posted in As Object, tagged history, painted flowers, painting, Still life on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mum’s the Word
Posted in As Kind, tagged history of flowers on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the late summer people begin to buy mums in pots. They appear at the roadside nurseries, in farmers’ markets, and even out in front of supermarkets, usually about ready to burst into bloom.
Mums bloom in distinctly autumnal colors. The yellows tend to be burnished with gold. The whites tempered by blushes and the reds [...]
Making a Meadow
Posted in As Landscape, tagged Meadow, wildflowers on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My wife and I have a bed and breakfast in a small upstate New York village. She is trained in horticulture and landscape architecture and decided that we should convert part of our lawn into a “meadow garden.” Part of the motivation was to create a supply of cut flowers for the morning breakfast table [...]
Modernism in Bloom
Posted in As Obliquity, tagged Art, Literature on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Bloomsbury Group, a collective of aesthetes in early 20th century London, got their name from the section of Camden that surrounds Bloomsbury Square. The name is apparently derived from the many gardened squares that dot the neighborhoods. Thomas Wriothesley, the 4th Earl of Southampton, laid out the square in the 1660s. At the time [...]
