{"id":26665,"date":"2017-03-30T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T07:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=26665"},"modified":"2017-03-30T00:01:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T07:01:48","slug":"bouquets-to-art-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/bouquets-to-art-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouquets to Art 2017 — Seduced by Those Quirky, Charming Boxed Bouquets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the Bouquets to Art 2017 show at the de Young Museum in\u00a0San Francisco. Samantha Williams, along with Clara McInerney and Dimitri Tretiakoff, created a window niche design commenting on the Golden Gate Park landscape outdoors. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

It’s that time of year again. It’s spring — in California anyway. Daffodils and tulips are poking their heads up around the San Francisco Bay Area. And flower lovers have once again flocked to the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park to see what\u00a0local floral designers are up to these days.<\/p>\n

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Michael Daigian, with Jennifer Lato, was inspired by Sean Scully’s “Wall of Light Horizon, 2005, for Bouquets to Art 2017. Dramatic\u00a0boxed floral designs like this one were popular this year. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The occasion was the annual Bouquets to Art show at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s de Young. Dozens of local designers are invited to participate in the event each year by riffing on one of the de Young’s works of\u00a0\u00a0art using\u00a0flowers, sticks, bulbs and seed pods. And this year, some of them seemed to be hell-bent on \u00a0mastering the art of the two-dimensional floral arrangement.<\/p>\n

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This\u00a0flat floral design by Poppy’s Petalworks of San Francisco spirals down to a clutch of still-green tulip buds. I think it’s the compactness of these boxed\u00a0arrangements that enchants me.\u00a0Photo by Barbara Newhall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I took in the show toward its\u00a0end this year, on a Saturday, and the bouquets, now nearly a week old, were holding up nicely. As always, my favorites were the arrangements that relied almost entirely on natural ingredients. Flat, boxed\u00a0designs were legion. And they bowled me over with their quirky charm.<\/p>\n

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Another way to do a flat, two-dimensional design — enclose petals in glass \u00a0or plastic: “Garden Party,” by Amy Roman Vassar, San Francisco, in response\u00a0to Frank Stella’s — also very two-dimensional — “Lettre sur les aveugles II, 1974.” Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Totem,” by<\/a> Sharpstick Studio, Oakland, dominated the deYoung Museum’s Wilsey Court for the Bouquets to Art 2017 exhibition. That’s a real tree hanging from the ceiling, complete with branches, roots and rings cut from the tree’s own trunk. Genius. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More Bouquets to Art bouquets at “Leaves, Twigs and Seeds at the de Young: It’s Art, but Is It a Bouquet?”<\/a>\u00a0 Also, “The Down Side of Things Beautiful — From the Mighty Rose to the Humble Daisy.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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I spent a glorious day at the Bouquets to Art 2017 exhibition in San Francisco, where several stunning boxed floral arrangements stole the show. \u00a0Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[653,900,1889,34,902,403,88,514],"class_list":["post-26665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-arts-and-crafts","tag-bouquets-to-art","tag-boxed-floral-designs","tag-dont-miss","tag-floral-designers","tag-flowers","tag-nature","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}