The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum has announced the opening of “Come Into Bloom: Flower Paintings from the Permanent ...

Clara Peeters, Still Life of Roses, Carnations, Tulips, Narcissi, Irises and other flowers, in a wicker basket. Courtesy Sotheby's. Brian Boucher November 27, 2023 Share Share This Article ...

The softly brushed lines and gently calibrated color of Still Life with Peonies reflects Porter’s thinking about the confluence of the personal and the contextual in the practice of art. The exuberant ...

As the Scientific Revolution spread across Europe, artists became increasingly devoted to realism in still life paintings of plants and flowers. As Thor Mednick, an art historian at the University ...

76 x 63 cm. (29.9 x 24.8 in.) - Collection of Georg Reinhart, Winterthur, acquired in 1914 directly from the artist. - Verena Hafter-Reinhart, Winterthur, 1955 by descent from the above collection. - ...

A tight compression of flowers at the center of the still lifes gives way to a riot of patterning that opens the compositions, propelling them forward, landing directly on the nervous system.

Some flowers droop downwards while others open proudly. As the Scientific Revolution spread across Europe, artists became increasingly devoted to realism in still life paintings of plants and flowers.