Flower Painting
Artist's Statement
Flower painting, Paintings of Flowers, Market Painting, market stall paintings, market scene paintings, floral artwork, Flower Paintings, floral painting, World Market Painting, sunflower art: Long before I started exploring conceptual arts, this is the way I started painting - Seeking Colors & Stupors.
I put these paintings for sales online for the first time in 2024, even though they were executed two or three decades ago. I even painted a couple when I was still a student at Yale, thus ages ago. That must have been in another lifetime...
The seeds of abstract flower paintings or abstract flower art may have been planted, as well, amongst other subject-matters ripe for exploration.
Behold the dream within the painted flower. Petals become the pedestals upon which the foundation of my artistic pursuits must rest. There is a remote chance that not too far off lies the stepping stone to beauty—will it be found?
Frederic Marsanne (Idea for a Poem)
Sunflower painting, rose painting, cherry blossom painting, tulip painting, may all soon assume a different meaning. Let's see how it goes.
Flower Painting
Source of Inspiration
A critical source of inspiration and admiration for me as an artist has been Claude Monet's Water Lilies or Nymphéas, as they are known in French. The French impressionist painter spent the bulk of his last 30 years to produce around 250 oil paintings depicting his garden at his home in Giverny.
My latest visit at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, France remains a source of inspiration. It is tough to believe that the genius executed these works while he suffered from cataracts.
Vincent Van Gogh's "Vase with Sunflowers," "Vase of Asters and Phlox," Flowerpot with Chives," "Wheatfield with Lark," or his nearly whimsical "Orchard in Bloom with Arles in the Background" on display at the Van Gogh Museum are no less magical and wonderful.
There are any number of other paintings that I find particularly impressive on the subject-matter. Gustav Klimt's "Pine Forest I" and "Pine Forest II," "Beech Forest I," or "Farm Garden with Sunflowers" are extraordinary artworks. It's worth traveling to Vienna, Austria just to be mesmerized by Egon Schiele's "Four Trees" at Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere. He was 27 when he painted this masterpiece, just a year before his death.
"Two Plants" by Lucian Freud remains one of many other sources of delight. The list goes on, of course.
Areas of Research
I am looking to develop a whole new line of artworks over time, leveraging a combination of:
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- Emotions combustion. Emotions can range from despair to ecstasy, but most people had rather avoid paroxysmal or extreme feelings in exchange for safety and stability. Art is one safe place where we can let go. Anxiety, awkwardness, or confusion are rather benign, as long as they take place in a museum. Even admiration, disgust, fear, horror, can "be survived" in front of a painting.
- Sensations Explosion. I am thus inclined to ignite my audience's senses, elicit a range of unique reactions, and even pursue people's propensity for the new and the different. From aesthetic appreciation to awe and joy, from envy to empathy, from sadness to nostalgia and excitement, every possible human emotion is on the table. Craving and entrancement, why not romance - welcome onboard! Laughs and smiles and surprises, all the same.
- Oil on canvas is a weapon without the prospect of real hurts or annihilation. The only emotion I'm not in the business - or rather the art - of pursuing is boredom - or so I hope. But then, allow for the occasional mishap...
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