Discover Appleyard's favourite flower paintings
Do you love flowers and paintings? Then you have came to the right place! Put two and two together and you are left with truly beautiful creations. We have searched high and low to find the best flower paintings that we think are worth a mention. What's your favourite?
Vincent van Gogh - Sunflowers
The Sunflowers is one of the most popular paintings in the National Gallery. It is the painting that is most often reproduced on cards, posters, mugs, tea-towels and stationery. It was also the picture that Van Gogh was most proud of.  The Sunflowers is one of the four paintings of sunflowers dating from August and September 1888. Van Gogh intended to decorate Gauguin's room with these paintings in the so-called Yellow House that he rented in Arles in the South of France.
Georgia O’Keeffe – Oriental Poppies
O’Keeffe’s poppies were made in 1928; the paining is a vast close-up, pulling the eye into the dark heart of these flowers. These are among her most famous works, the power of colours of glossy red and orange, exploding on a canvas almost four feet wide. With no distracting background, you can observe its sheer force of personality. O’Keeffe’s poppies is displayed at the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis.
Jan Brueghel the Elder – Flowers in a vase
This is an all-together-now bouquet, with lilies, tulips, fritillaries, daffodils, snowdrops, carnations, cornflowers, peonies, anemones and roses! Can you spot which flower is which? Flowers in a vase is one of the largest and most luscious in art. This is a vanitas painting combining the real, the ideal and symbolic. Brueghel’s Flowers in a Vase is displayed at the National Museum of Art, Bucharest.
Hokusai – Bullfinch on Weeping Cherry
Hokusai’s marvellous image of spring cherry blossom with a blue sky was made in 1840, but which way is up? It is frequently produced upside down and you can see why. The pink and white flowers blossom in space, there is no sense of gravity and bullfinch doesn’t help with orientation. Do you agree that there is a giddy sense of floating among the bright petals and no middle distance? So, the eye travels all over the image, our eyes really do get lost in the floating world of cherry blossom. Hokusai’s Bullfinch on Weeping Cheery is displayed at Guimet Museum, Paris/ British Library, London.
Judith Leyster – Tulip
The Dutch artist painted this striped specimen in 1643, when tulip pictures were regarded as cheap substitutes for the real thing. This is because tulip bulbs had become prodigiously expensive, which also made Tulip books widely popular too. Leyster’s Tulip seems to have been made for pure visual pleasure; it is now in the Frans Hals Musuem, Haarlem.
We hope you enjoyed reading our little piece on our favourite floral paintings. Why not treat yourself to a next day flower delivery straight to your doorstep tomorrow? Choose Appleyard London and browse through our all flowers range to find the perfect bouquet for you!
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