Thursday, July 26, 2012

Challenge 71 - Flowers with Style

Challenge 71Flowers with Style            Due: August 4th   Host:  Cynthia Ann Morgan
 
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://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

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