The Great Piece of Turf

After I paired a collection of Mark's pictures of white plants with Whistler's painting, "Symphony in White," Barbara H., a longtime reader of this blog, noted that Arisaema sikokianum reminded her of Munch's painiting, "The Scream." That comment made me wonder how many other plants had some kind of relationship to art works. 

Mark immediately pointed out that the photo he'd just taken of our weedy "meadow" was reminsicent of "The Great Piece of Turf," a watercolor masterpiece by Albrech Durer. Durer's work is a study of a seemingly random group of wild plants, including dandelion and greater plantain. How many other plant/art combinations we can find in the garden remains to be seen.

Comments

[Barbara H.]

What fun! This is a whole new aspect of gardening...

[Linda Brazill]

Absolutely! Thanks for the great idea. And the Durer makes me feel so much better about all our weeds.

[Altoon]

Durer sure makes great beauty from very ordinary matter. In your photo, the peppermint tulips add some pizzazz.

[Julie Siegel]

Of course, Durer employs the brilliant light background to pop the forms.
I too love this idea Barbara suggested!

[Lisa at Greenbow]

Great way to look at One's Great Piece of Turf.

[Les]

After 2" of rain yesterday, Henri Rousseau may be easier to pull off here, though I will have a hard time convincing my wife to model.

[Lauren]

What a great Durer. I've never seen that before.