Famous Flower Paintings

Flowers are often popular subject matter in fine art.  The complexity and beauty of flowers make them a technical challenge to paint for even the most skilled artist.  Flowers accompany important life events and are cross cultural.  They symbolize nature, the figure, and most often carry with them emotional expression of every kind.  The variety of shapes, color, hue, and meaning associated with flowers provide a subject matter that is timeless and engaging.  The most famous flower paintings embody all of these things.  Most notably, flower art paintings range from realistic depictions to a mere impression of the flower all the way to pure abstraction, according any artist the ability to make them unique to their style.  It is some of the most famous flower paintings that we often take for granted.

[Read more →]