Posts tagged 'Flowers'

A Japanese funeral home wanted to change the strict dress code observed in funeral services, where wearing colors other than black and white is regarded inappropriate.

It partnered with an ad agency to create an ad that may do that convention.

The agency, responded with this: a figure of a skeleton, made with pressed flowers that overtly celebrates the cycle of life by introducing color.

“Blue Water Lilies” by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet, is one of his 250-piece series of oil paintings of water lilies. 

Rafflesia arnoldii is the world’s largest flower. It can grow to a diameter of three feet and weigh as much as 11 kilograms.

“Oriental Poppies” (1928) by Georgia O’Keeffe.

An original painter, but the distilled lushness of her early scenes of flowers and skies eventually ossified, and her work became formulaic, one of the first brands in American art.

(Via NYT) 

A lamp? A flower vase? Both. Switch on the lamp by gentry stroking the flowers.