{"id":13163,"date":"2013-03-20T11:38:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T18:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=13163"},"modified":"2013-03-20T11:38:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T18:38:52","slug":"bouquets-to-art-at-the-de-young-where-poppies-dance-and-cactuses-are-petit-fours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/bouquets-to-art-at-the-de-young-where-poppies-dance-and-cactuses-are-petit-fours\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouquets to Art at the de Young — Where Poppies Dance and Cactuses Are Petit Fours"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kaori Imaizumi of Blooming Floral Design in San Francisco created a bouquet to bounce off Sam Francis<\/a>‘s Helios<\/em> for the Bouquets to Art show at the de Young museum this week. Photo by BF Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not too late to catch a bus \u2013 or a plane \u2013 and head out to San Francisco\u2019s Golden Gate Park for the annual Bouquets to Art show at the de Young museum.*<\/p>\n

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Yu-mei Chen of San Jose, assisted by Chin-Huat Chang, was inspired by Mary Heilmann’s Passage<\/em> 2006, at the left. Photo by BF Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There you\u2019ll find moon cactuses passing themselves off as petite fours, and poppies doing a dance with a spatter painting by Sam Francis.<\/p>\n

Artichokes, orchids, sea fans, thistles, pussy willows \u2013 nothing botanical lies outside the imagination of the 130-plus floral designers displaying their work at the de Young this week. If\u00a0 lush red berries bursting from a ball of cork can be called a bouquet, that is. Or multi-colored sea fans poking out from behind clusters of protea blossoms.<\/p>\n

The de Young was jammed Tuesday morning as aficionados of floral art packed into the place for the first day of the five-day show \u2013 when the flowers are at their freshest.<\/p>\n

(Tip: the museum was way less crowded around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, when all those eager early birds had taken their sore feet and aching backs home.)<\/p>\n

As per tradition, each floral arrangement in the Bouquets to Art exhibition plays off a work of art in the museum\u2019s collection \u2013 from Mexico’s saintly Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners, to<\/p>\n

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Nicole Vidalakis of the San Francisco Garden Club used spray roses, mesh and intertwined leaves in her floral arrangement to complement an 18th century image of Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners. Photo by BF Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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From Takako Miyashita, a curvaceous floral arrangement responds to another Virgin and Child — Gottfried Heinwein’s Epiphany II (Adoration of the Shepherds)<\/em> 1998. Photo by BF Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

a lavish 17th and 18th century silver tea service.<\/p>\n

Bouquets to Art, de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, through Saturday, March 23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* PS: You can drive to the de Young, but museum parking is expensive and street parking hard to find. Still, one of my favorite things about the de Young is the terrific glimpse you get of the museum’s copper-clad walls as you enter the lot from Fulton Street at 10th Avenue — almost worth the 25 bucks I paid for mid-morning to late afternoon parking on Tuesday.
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If you enjoyed this post, don’t miss two upcoming posts on the Bouquets to Art show, “It’s Art but Is It a Bouquet?”<\/a> as well as\u00a0 “A Final Toss of the Bouquet.”<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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Tea for Two from Samantha Williams, Clara McInerney and Dimitri Tretiakoff of Glen Ellen. Notice the orange and yellow moon cactus petite fours in the background. Photo by BF Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Writer
Even the ladies room at the de Young is bursting with flowers this week.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s not too late to catch a bus \u2013 or a plane \u2013 and head out to San Francisco\u2019s Golden Gate Park for the annual Bouquets to Art show at the de Young museum — including a flower arrangement that looks like a cake. It’s on till Saturday, March 23, 2013, but if you can’t make it to the real thing, here are some fun photos I took the first day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[900,901,34,902,903,904,905,278,906,31,907,908,909,910],"class_list":["post-13163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-bouquets-to-art","tag-de-young","tag-dont-miss","tag-floral-designers","tag-gottfried-heinwein-epiphany-ii","tag-kaori-imaizumi","tag-mary-heilmann-passage","tag-my-unruly-garden","tag-nicole-vidalakis","tag-photo-ops","tag-sam-francis-helios","tag-samantha-williams","tag-takako-miyashita","tag-yu-mei-chen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}