Art In Bloom

Description for ART IN BLOOM by Ella M Foshay: ART IN BLOOM is a visual extravaganza celebrating flowers in art. From the beginning of time people have been enriched by their experience and observation of nature and inspired to "imitate" nature in a variety of media---from primitive cave paintings to sentimental Victorian miniatures to the sophisticated oils by 20th century artist Georgia O'Keeffe. ART IN BLOOM illustrates some of the treasures of this genre found in the works of such European and American masters as Jan van Huysman, Claude Monet, Edward Hopper, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Fantin-Latour, John Singer Sargent, Berthe Morisot and Charles Sheeler. Complementing over 40 superb reproductions of paintings in oil and watercolor, the text explores the history of flowers in art. The first serious use of flowers in art dates to the illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period. During the Renaissance, artists Albrecht Durer and Leonardo da Vinci created extraordinary