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Rachel Ruysch, Flowers in a Glass Vase, 1704
Went into a mini rabbit hole on flowers last night and here are a few things I gathered.
Flowers
In botany there are 4 types of plants, one of them is angiosperms (flowering plants)
There are three primary kinds of flowers: annuals, perennials, and biennials.
A fourth type behaves in annuals and perennials like a hybrid.
There are two more kinds of flowers: shrub flowers and tree flowers
I was searching for a website that has a collection of all the flowers in the world, with pictures, and this page on BioExplorer is the best one yet.
I also made a list of flower gardens across the world that I hope to visit in the future.
Flowers in Art
10 Artworks Inspired By Flowers
- Claude Monet: Series of water lily paintings capturing his garden in Giverny.
- Vincent Van Gogh: Two series of Sunflowers
- Georgia O’Keeffe: Red Canna series
- Andy Warhol: Series titled “Flowers,” based on photographs by Patricia Caulfield.
- Ambrosius Bosschaert: Still life paintings of detailed bouquets of tulips and roses from the Dutch Golden Age.
- Jeff Koons: Sculpture “Puppy” covered in bedding plants
- Rachel Ruysch: still life paintings of flowers with a high level of detail.
- Clementine Hunter: Paintings of zinnias
- William Morris: Textile designs featuring flowers, leaves, trees, or plants
- Édouard Manet: Floral still lifes, including a painting of lilacs in a crystal vase.
- Anna Atkins: Cyanotype prints of plants and flowers
- Katsushika Hokusai: Bird and flower prints (kachō-ga)
more in flower stories and art on Google Arts & Culture
quotes on flowers
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
– Georgia O'Keeffe
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
– Claude Monet
When I am able to paint again, if I have no imagination, I shall do some studies of flowers ... It is a great pleasure for me.
– Paul Gauguin
I think that nothing is more difficult for a true painter than to paint a rose, since before he can do so, he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
– Henri Matisse
(A) painter can say all he wants to with fruit or flowers or even clouds.
– Édouard Manet
I am working at it every morning from sunrise on, for the flowers fade so soon, and the thing is to do the whole in one rush.
– Vincent van Gogh
Never have I had more ideas about Art in my head, and yet I am forced to do flowers. While painting them—standing before the peonies and roses—I think of Michelangelo. This cannot go on.
– Henri Fantin-Latour
It relaxes my mind to paint flowers. I do not bring to it the same tension of spirit as when I am in front of a model. When I paint flowers, I arrange the tones, I try out different values boldly, without worrying about wasting a canvas.
What seems to me to be one of the most important things about our movement is that we have freed painting from the tyranny of subject-matter. I am free to paint flowers and call them flowers, without having to weave a story round them.
– Pierre-Auguste Renoir