So there might be more going on here than meets the eye.
Not just in what you draw, neither to wax poetic about how it’s not for you.
“There are flowers everywhere for anyone who cares to look” declared Henri Matisse.
Waxoil waxed wroth.
We will always be connected to our roots. Our pasts define us. Everything on social media is staged and most of it is fake.
Can flower art save the world? Flowers will save art. After all, there was a time when paintings never used to portray how the subjects actually looked. Instead, artists would paint them to an ideal dictated by the latest trends. This just makes you seem incredibly shallow.
The greater the biological relevance an object has to us, the more will be attuned to its recognition, and the more tolerant will therefore be our standards of formal correspondence.
Ernst Gombrich
In a world saturated with images, modestly sized easel paintings nonetheless seize your attention.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction.
Paul Giraudoux
A deeper beauty lies cocealed within the flower.
Piet Mondrian
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel (Maya Angelou).
The flamboyance of flowers is intended to attract pollinators: it’s a strategy of seduction, necessary for their survival. But could the same not be said of art?
Bougie means that someone appears to be wealthy, whether it is true or not. Bougie is a term used for middle class people who are living pretentious lives.
Weathering Joe use visual languages to their own ends.
There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.
Richard Feynman
