{"id":1161,"date":"2014-04-16T01:30:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T01:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2014-04-16T01:30:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T01:30:58","slug":"painting-with-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Painting with Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Be still my heart, when one art form or expression is interpreted in a different form, and the\"1cassat-duo\" results bring honor to both:<\/p>\n

*A religious prayer\u00a0 as expressed in classic east Indian dance<\/p>\n

*The myth of Pygmalion, where a sculptor falls for his creation, as expressed in the musical, My Fair Lady<\/p>\n

*American blues, gospel, and work songs translated into the opera, Porgy and Bess<\/p>\n

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So you can imagine my rapture when the husband and I went to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for PAFA in Bloom. Floral designers were challenged to do an homage to a work of art, and the result was exhibited beside it.<\/p>\n

\"2cassatt\"

Baby on Mother’s Arm, Mary Cassatt, 1891<\/p><\/div>\n

\"4cassatt-fl\"

Linda Lord, Gloucester, NJ<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"2Skaters-duo\"

The Skaters, Gari Melchers, ca. 1892
Kristie Lynn Borchick, Allentown, PA<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"5girl-plaid-duo\"

Girl in a Plaid Scarf, Susan Macdowell Eakins, ca. 1880-1885
Michael Haschak, Philadelphia, PA<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"1warning-duo\"

Warning, Jimmy Ernst, 1960
Dierdre Gross, Medford NJ<\/p><\/div>\n

\"9JeffMarket\"

Jefferson Market, John Sloan, 1917
Carol English, Cranford, NJ<\/p><\/div>\n

\"NorthShore-duo\"

North Shore, Charles Prendergast, 1939
Cathy Hozack, Philadelphia, PA<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Prendergast-duo\"

Promenade, Maurice Prendergast, ca. 1915-1918
Darcie Garcia, Allentown, PA<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"promenade,prendergast\"<\/p>\n

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\"nude\"

Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos, John Vanderlyn, 1809-1814<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"nude,fl\"

Peicha Chang and Rachel Berkowitz, Philadelphia, PA<\/p><\/div>\n

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I could go on and on!<\/p>\n

There were more than 40 such pairings, with wide ranges of interpretation, from the literal–like the ship of orchids paired with a tall ships scene, to the metaphorical, like a Peaceable Kingdom interpreted with a variety of flowers, from the very raggy and wild to the tight and symmetrical.<\/p>\n

Is this not exciting stuff?!!<\/p>\n

Similarly exciting is the wonderful online class I’m taking with the extraordinary quilt\/folk artist Pamela Allen of Canada. The first lesson asked us to translate a celebrated painting. No, not in flowers, but as a fabric “sketch.” Like many of my classmates, I chose a piece from that exuberant colorist, Henri Matisse. This one is called Anemones in a Chinese Vase, and it’s from the Cone Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art:<\/p>\n

\"Anemones,ChineseVase,Matisse\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0Here is my fabric sketch, tweaked in just the right way by Pamela:<\/p>\n

\"matissetwk--pamela\"<\/p>\n

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And here I’ve used the same fabrics to translate another lively scene–the wine and seder plate at our Passover celebration.<\/p>\n

\"SederPlate,revised\"<\/p>\n

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Hope this blog post has sparked your creativity, encouraging you to find a fine art masterpiece that inspires you to “paint” with flowers or fabric.<\/p>\n

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