In the Spring the St. Louis Art Museum hosts one of my favorite exhibits, Art in Bloom. The challenge for some local floral artists is to create a work based on a piece from the museum that is assigned to them.
This was one of my favorites from this year. It was this detail that caught my eye:
ISO 800 10mm f/5.0 1/13
The ribbon, an almost exact detail from the painting, I think made the arrangement go from abstract to concrete.
This exhibit is usually crowded, for that reason I take my point and shoot camera. I usually set my ISO to 800, turn the flash off, and then let the camera make the rest of the decisions. This low maintenance approach leaves me with nice photos and more time to focus on the art I am looking at. I was lucky this year to have time to see the exhibit twice, once in the morning on its first full day and once near the end of the weekend in the evening. It was interesting to me how much the arrangements had changed over the few days.
What do you think, do you like this take on the painting? Do you have a favorite yearly art exhibit? Do you think that the time of day changes how you interact with the art you are looking at? Feel free to leave a comment below.
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Great post
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Thanks!
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Oh this is fabulous! I would love this kind of exhibition and seeing the interpretations.
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Yes, it is a favorite here in town, I’m sure you would enjoy it.
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Wow. I love the imagination of the museum to host such a challenge. And the florist did an amazing job. Wish they had something like this here.
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Yes, it is a great exhibit, and different every year.
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I think the floral arrangement mirrors the painting perfectly. 🙂
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I agree 🙂
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wow that’s very nice
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I thought so too 🙂
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The flowers were made of ribbon? I think it does resemble the painting, standing tall like it is. I feel most alert in the evenings and at night, and that’s when I feel most inspired looking at art and writing.
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No, the flowers were flowers, it was just that one detail that was ribbon that so matched the painting that tied it all together for me 🙂
I’m more a morning person myself when it comes to art, so it was a change of pace for me to go once in the evening to look at this exhibit. It was interesting because it changed the experience a lot.
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Oh wow
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I recently attended Art in Bloom in Milwaukee and wrote a post on it! Love that event. Also really enjoy your blog. Follow for follow?
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Yes, I found your post:https://lifeinlipstick.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/art-in-bloom-milwaukee-wi/
I’m leaving a link to it here in case anyone else is interested in taking a look.
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Thanks for checking it out!
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I always love when art work is interpreted, and this one is beautiful—as is your take on the interpretation along with the original work. Very nice post. 🙂
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Thanks for your visit and kind comment.
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Love this post, Amy. There’s no shame in point and shoot cameras, especially for these situations. My flash is always turned off and I object to people who don’t show that courtesy. I don’t often get back for a second look, but had an outstanding experience at L’Hermitage in St Petersburg. We saw Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal Son in morning and later afternoon light. Just awesome.
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Did you find the experience different not only in terms of light but also the people who happened to be there at those particular times?
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The frequency of tour groups may have been a bit lower in the afternoon, but every group stopped for the story of That Painting. It was rare to have the room to ourselves for more than a minute, in the total of about ninety minutes we were there! We heard the story from guides in every language.
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Well, that would be really different, to hear it being interpreted in different languages.
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That’s a wonderful form of abstract art. No wonder it’s popular. Do they refresh the flowers or is it only a short exhibition?
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This exhibition runs over one weekend and then is dismantled. One of the reasons it was interesting to me to go twice this year is that I went once near the beginning and once at the end. The art itself had changed, as the flowers begin to fade.
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The bow certainly is a nice touch.
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I thought so.
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Really cool way to make a ‘reproduction’.
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I think so, it a display that I have enjoyed every time I go.
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