Dutch flowers

Artist CoCo Zentner discusses the history around the Dutch Master Paintings, their color choice, and compositions. The types of flowers and insects used in the 17th and 18th-century artwork & how CoCo Zentner wanted to challenge herself in modernizing this concept in her watercolor paintings of

Floral designers have always been inspired by the 17th Century Dutch Masters, but over the past few years, the look has become very popular again. Loose, natural arrangements with beautiful home grown flowers, tangled stems, wispy, fly away foliage, trailing fronds and disheveled leaves lend themselves to the look. Each specimen individual and unique just […]

I feel that these bouquets weren’t a reflection of reality, flowers don’t rest like that. I’m sure there has been some rigging applied by the artists involved. But I like the balance of the bouquet and the vase here. The vase feels as part of it.

Is there a secret language hidden in 17th- and 18th-century Dutch still-life flower paintings? Although mostly rejected by modern scholarship, this idea is so beguiling that it refuses to go away… From the symbolic to the mundane, double meanings abound in these bouquets

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

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