This past Wednesday we went to see the 2013 "Bouquets to Art" at the De Young museum in San Francisco. I think the last time I went was almost four years ago, and if you want to see what the previous years look like, you can go to my archives of March 2008 and 2009. It is fun to see how different each year looks. I usually go every year, but the past years, there has been one reason or another that we could not make it there. This is how it looked the evening we went. It was so misty and magical in the park.
I had zero hopes of seeing this lovely lady, as I thought surely they would close this exhibit off for the evening, but we were lucky enough to see her! She was just as beautiful as I remember her when I last saw her
here. I feel lucky that I have now seen her twice, because that painting is absolutely stunning! I'll let all the flower pictures speak for themselves, but for those of you who haven't seen my previous posts on this event, it is an annual flower show of sorts, that floral artist participate in. I believe they choose the paintings that they want to interpret in flowers. I tried to make sure the painting that they were representing is behind the arrangement, not an easy thing to do when there were hundreds of people there that evening! I'm pretty proud that most of my photos don't have the masses surrounding the arrangements. Enjoy!
This uploaded wrong, but I was too lazy to fix it. Basically it still looks magical outside when we left.
The prettiest flower of them all.......... We had a lovely dinner afterwards with this little lady.
Gorgeous!
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Thank you for those pictures, Elizabeth. They showed off the arrangements well, and I saw enough of the paintings behind to see the inspiration. I like how most did not try to replicate the painting, but focused on the color scheme, light, or even personalities depicted.
ReplyDeleteWow! What creativity the floral artists have. Those arrangements are beautiful..as is you daughter.
ReplyDeleteYou are so lucky to live close to places that can give you great inspiration. I would have loved to see that in person. I think it might be fun to use a painting, as the floral designers had to, to direct the path of your next creation. I look at the work of Henry Darger,and the colors and style,make me think of Liberty fabrics even though his "story line" does not. Thanks for sharing.
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oh WOW! thank you!
ReplyDelete@ Carolina, funny that you mention to use flowers as my next inspiration :) I just bought two beautiful fabrics with flowers. One is called babies breath, and the other is called Mums vintage. I'm always on the hunt for small or beautiful floral fabrics. These are both cotton lawn, so they will be soft and pleasant to use I think.
ReplyDeleteYou know I haven't heard about Henry Darger, and when I looked him up, I see what you mean. Now I have to look up more things about him, because from what I saw, it looked pretty amazing!
The exhibit was beautiful in person, and I'm always very grateful and thankful that I get to live by this beautiful city with loads of inspiration.
i wish they would do something like this here - it looks spectacular! i love when art is combined with flowers!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely idea! I have to go to see the girl when she gets back home. I have been to Mauritshuis once, but I had my then 3-year-old girl with me, so I was not really paying attention.
ReplyDeleteHi, Elizabeth, Your photographs are fabulous! What a joy to see them. I can almost smell the flowers.
ReplyDeleteSome amazing flower displays there, they are quite something!
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