Flowers with Style

The Quilters Studio – Art Quilt Challenge 2nd Saturday of month 10:30 am (Sept to May)

Challenge #23 Flowers with Style Jan 14th/due Feb 11th

Challenge: Choose a style from Art History to create a quilt featuring flowers. Your flowers can be geometric (like traditional or contemporary quilt blocks), stylized(like folk art), realistic or abstract (like impressionism & expressionism) or anything else you want.

Example Time Periods/Styles:   

  Renaissance

    Victorian



Art Nouveau



 

Cubism - Picasso's Woman with Flower

Stylized - Picasso's Petit Fleurs

Impressionism - Monet's Garden

Stylized - Matisse's Le Lance

Expressionistic - Emil Nolde's Yellow & Red Flowers

Pop Art - Warhol's Flowers



Realistic -Nobuyoshi Araki's Rondeau



Japanese Woodcut - Hokusai

Van Gogh's Sunflowers

References:

http://livingartsoriginals.com/infoflowerart.htm http://www.galenfrysinger.com/quilt_show_flowers.htm

http://magdavacariu.blogspot.com/2010/07/flowers-of-emil-nolde.html

http://tinyurl.com/7tzgvkb http://www.zampedroni.com/category/new-original-paintings/

http://www.easy-oil-painting-techniques.org/flower-painting.html

http://painting.about.com/od/paintingtipscomposition/a/10TipsCompositn.htm