Life is a Bouquet of Flowers Painting by Belinda Low

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Life is a Bouquet of Flowers

by Belinda Low

Canvas Print

$63

Framed Print

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Weekender Tote Bag

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Spiral Notebook

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Original - Sold

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Dimensions

24.000 x 36.000 x 0.500 inches

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Title

Life is a Bouquet of Flowers

Artist

Belinda Low

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Canvas

Description

SOLD on 11 Oct 2014 to a buyer from Australia. This will go to a home in London, UK to a beautiful lady.
One of Top Finishers in the "Florals Inspired by Modern Masters" contest held in July 2014.
FEATURED in the following FAA groups:
In the Mood
Anything Van Goghs
Contemporary Florals
- Impressionists of the 21st Century
- Excellent Self-Taught Artists
Here's another one of my 'ambitious' project on flowers but this time, it's after 18th Century Dutch painter Jan van Huysum who was probably the most prominent of all Dutch flower painters. His florals kind of caught my attention with their varied colors. Below a short history and biography taken from http://www.allartclassic.com/author_biography.php?p_number=66
Jan van Huysum was born in 1682 in Amsterdam, the eldest son of Justus van Huysum the Elden. Jan and his youngest brothers, Justus the Younger, Jacob and Michiel van Huysum, all followed in their father�s footsteps and became flower painters. Jan van Huysum, however, was far more successful than his brothers. During his lifetime he acquired enormous fame, selling his paintings for astronomically high prices to courts all over Europe. People were prepared to pay several thousand guilders for one of Van Huysum's still-life paintings. Among his customers were Louis XIV, Charles of Austria, the English Prime Minister and the Duke of Mecklenburgh. Van Huysum came to be known as the �Phoenix of Flower Painters�.

Van Huysum�s early paintings dovetails seamlessly with the seventeenth-century tradition of Jan Davidsz de Heem and Mignon. Typical for his paintings in the suggestion of three-dimensional depth. Van Huysum set off his compositions against a dark background.

Later Jan van Huysum paintings, after 1720, are quite different and reveal a more exuberant style, marked by asymmetrical compositions against a much lighter background. Convincing suggestion of three-dimension relations was no longer Van Huysum�s prime interest. Instead, van Huysum gave his paintings a certain exuberance and abundance by using light, pastel-like colours, striving for a primarily decorative effects.

Van Huysum was secretive about his painting technique because he feared that someone might imitate his methods. These were supposedly different from those practised by early Dutch still-life painters. Now we know that his materials were not much different from those of his colleagues. Jan van Huysum was one of the first in the Netherlands to use newly introduced some new pigments. But the real difference was in the change from a dark background to a lighter one. His transparent or translucent paints had a luminosity, that could not be obtained in any other way.
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