{"id":17404,"date":"2014-03-20T03:35:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T10:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=17404"},"modified":"2014-03-20T03:35:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T10:35:30","slug":"the-de-young-this-week-bursting-with-art-and-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/the-de-young-this-week-bursting-with-art-and-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"The de Young This Week: Bursting With Art — And Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"At<\/a>
At the de Young Bouquets to Art show — Kren P. Rasmussen of Bloomster’s playful comment on Richard Diebenkorn’s, “Berkeley No. 3, 1953.” I like the way this arrangements lets you see the painting through it, while elaborating on the painting. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Art. Bouquets. More art. More bouquets. And crowds and crowds of people. My idea of a good time. I spent the day yesterday at the annual Bouquets to Art show at the de Young Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park — joined by two friends who enjoy flowers and art<\/a> as much as I do.<\/p>\n

\"Kaori<\/a>
Kaori Imaizumi of Blooming Floral Design, Inc., captured the mystery of Robert Henri’s “Lady in Black with Spanish Scarf.” I love this painting; I want to be her. Photo by BF Newhal<\/em>l<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The show runs through Sunday, March 23. Don’t miss this chance to see how San Francisco Bay Area floral designers interpret pieces in the museum’s collection. The designs run from opulent, to funny, to sublime to knock-out gorgeous.<\/p>\n

For those who can’t make the show, here are some highlights. My favorites are the designs that are meant to be looked at along with the piece they’re paired with, so that together they create yet another work of art.<\/p>\n

\"From<\/a>
Fantasy Florals’ flashy, lipsticky comment on Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn Monroe I Love Your Kiss Forever Forever.” Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"From<\/a>
From Waterlily Pond Floral Design Studio, a huge, swirling aerial design of twigs and blossoms hangs from the ceiling of Wilsey Court. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Detail,<\/a>
A tulip from floral designer Judy Cochran Ward’s pastoral response to George Hitchcock’s 1889 painting “Tulip Culture.” Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A detail of a floral design by Takako Ikebana Studio: a simple calla made elegant by the addition of a spig of texture. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Rhonda<\/a>
Rhonda Stoffel created a stark bouquet of white anthuriums and black leaves in response to Alexander Pope’s dead swan. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Catherine<\/a>
Catherine Matsuyo Tompkison of San Jose touches up her design for Sean Scully’s “Wall of Light Horizon, 2005.” This was one of my favorites at the show: the red sticks seem to float, repeating the subtle horizontal red lines of the painting. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Catherin<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Church<\/a>
A golden sphere of blossoms from Church Street Flowers. Delicious color upon color upon color. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"For<\/a>
Constance Oakson of the Empire of Flora, Los Altos, created a melange of textures for James Budd Dixon’s equally textured “Untitled, 1947-1948.” Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bouquets<\/a>
The de Young glass and ceramics gallery includes Dale Chihuly”s blue and orange “Ultramarine Stemmed Form with Orange,” top right, with bouquet by Bonnie Hart. Photo by BF Newhal<\/em>l<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"An<\/a>
Im Chan Cindy Ho’s austere floral design of leaves, callas and hydrangeas frames Robert Motherwell’s painting, “At Five in the Afternoon, 1950.” Like\u00a0 Catherine Matsuyo Tompkison and Kren Rasmussen’s designs above, this arrangement works with the\u00a0 painting to create a new and pleasing whole. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"An<\/a>
Cymbidium from Bloomster’s floral design,\u00a0 above. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Kaori<\/a><\/p>\n

Art. Bouquets. More art. More bouquets. My idea of a good time. I spent the day yesterday at the annual Bouquets to Art show at the de Young Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park — joined by two friends who enjoy flowers and art as much as I do. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[376,43,900,34,914,1183,403,1126,88,1184,31],"class_list":["post-17404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-art","tag-beauty","tag-bouquets-to-art","tag-dont-miss","tag-floral-design","tag-flower-arranging","tag-flowers","tag-museums","tag-nature","tag-paintings","tag-photo-ops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17404","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=17404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}