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A floral diagram is a graphic representation of the structure of a flower. It shows the number of floral organs, their arrangement and fusion. Different parts of the flower are represented by their respective symbols. Floral diagrams are useful for flower identification or can help in understanding angiosperm evolution.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Untitled, vase of flowers, watercolor on paper, 17 + 3 ⁄ 4 in × 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (45.1 cm × 29.2 cm), between 1903 and 1905. O'Keeffe experimented with depicting flowers in her high school art class. Her teacher explained how important it was to examine the flower before drawing it.
Flowers have been used since prehistoric times in funeral rituals: traces of pollen have been found on a woman's tomb in the El Miron Cave in Spain. [144] Many cultures draw a connection between flowers and life and death, and because of their seasonal return flowers also suggest rebirth, which may explain why many people place flowers upon graves.
Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado, Madrid. A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).
In Galicia (Spain) and all the Cantabrian Mountains, hexafoils are found since the Iron Age in torc terminals and decoration, and is still used in folk art. [7] It can also be found in the Pyrenees (Navarre, Aragon, and Catalonia). [8] Since 2003 the hexafoil is being used as the logo of the Alt Pirineu Natural Park, the largest of Catalonia. [9]
Oshibana (押し花) is the art of using pressed flowers and other botanical materials to create an entire picture from these natural elements. [1] Such pressed flower art consists of drying flower petals and leaves in a flower press to flatten them, exclude light and press out moisture. These elements are then used to "paint" an artistic ...
[3] [6] Both believe Dürer produced the drawing as a study for his 1506 watercolor, The Virgin with a Multitude of Animals. [6] Fritz Koreny, a former curator at the Albertina and a current researcher at the Institute for Art History at the University of Vienna, attributes the drawing to Hans Baldung. [1] Baldung was a student of Dürer.
Bird-and-flower painting by Cai Han and Jin Xiaozhu, c. 17th century.. The huaniaohua is proper of 10th century China; and the most representative artists of this period are Huang Quan (哳㥳) (c. 900 – 965), who was an imperial painter for many years, and Xu Xi (徐熙) (937–975), who came from a prominent family but had never entered into officialdom.
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