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Flores, Musas de la pintura

FLOWERS, MUSES OF PAINTING

The flower, manifestation of the wonderful need of plants to conquer insects to reproduce, has moved throughout the history of humanity, being part of its culture, inspiring rites, as an attribute of religious glorification, as a companion of consolation and rejoicing. , to conquer and to give life to man's experiential spaces.

Fortunately for us, that presence has been captured throughout the centuries, thanks to art. Since the beginning of humanity, flowers have been painted, and in particular roses, as revealed by walls of ancient cultures in Persia and Greece.

Sublimation through the flower is recurring in the history of painting: just as bees are attracted by their aromas and colors, artists have come to them to capture their forms and reproduce on canvas the emotions they provoke.

The evolution of the techniques of the different schools and artistic movements, complemented by botanical teachings, allowed us to achieve virtuosity in capturing the multiple aesthetic and spiritual benefits of flowers.

Expressions of flowers, from their morphology to their temperature to their ethereal environment, can be seen printed from different perspectives of art.
Through a world of interpretations of the work contemplated, they are those painted or sculpted flowers that therefore allow wonderful emotional responses that are so different in each of us, and that make museums today compete with stadiums.

Another of their expressions occurs in contemporary art in which some painters make them protagonists, as we can see in the works of the famous American painter Georgia O'keefe – Jimson Weed – 1936

Just as sometimes in the works of our teacher Alejandro Obregón, like in this “Flor Carnívora” (1980):

Other artists decided to immortalize the ephemeral play of light of spring blooming: they painted outdoors every day at the same times, in forests, meadows and gardens. They were the so-called Impressionists of the 9th Century. Here are Monet's “Poppies” (1873) France:

Our Creole impressionist was Andrés de Santa María, here Las Flores de 1904

Ricardo Gómez Campuzano recreated flower still lifes from the 1930s in Bogotá

 The Girl with the Roses

 Francisco Antonio Cano 1904

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