BERNARD JANSON ; OIL PAINTING KNIFE; FLOWERS GALLERY
In this gallery of vibrant and colorful paintings, I would like to show the cheerful and glory beauty of flowers.
Painting flowers symbolizing fragility, brievety of life, fleeting beauty, but also delicacy is for the artist painter I am a real pleasure. Their ruffled petals, sometimes ripped, their singular shapes, their luxuriant aspect, their blazing colors are also a real challenge to paint.
Over the centuries and mainly during the classical time, there was a powerful symbolism about flowers. Generaly flowers represented positives allegories such as: spring, wisdom, hopeful, but also negatives allegories such as decay, vanity, selfishness.
Some flowers represented symbols like:
Love and vanity for tulips, Egoism for daffodils, Graceful and style for jasmine, Commitment for sunflowers, Love, purity, beauty for roses.
By now most of those symbols have been forgotten, but I think some of them are always in our collective subconscious and for me, in my artwork, they are always looming in a symbolic background.
A BUNCH OF PEONIES.
size 55 cm X 46 cm
reference ; FL E 22
oil on canvas
NASTURTIUMS SUMMER FLOWERS.
size 33 cm X 41cm
reference ; R 20
oil on canvas
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GARDEN FLOWERS.
size 55 cm X 46cm
reference ; R 01
oil on canvas
SPRING FLOWERS.
size 46 cm X 38cm
reference ; N 32
oil on canvas
SPRING BLOOMING.
size 55 cm X 46cm
reference ; N 13
oil on canvas
POPPIES.
size 55 cm X 46cm
reference ; N 11
oil on canvas
Insted of painting the ever-present bunch of flowers, I prefered to paint flowers in their natural environment, that seems to me to be more interesting and original.
A BUNCH OF FLOWERS.
size 65 cm X 54cm
reference ; N 01
oil on canvas
A STAIR WITH A BLUE PITCHER.
size 55 cm X 46 cm
reference ; FL M 08
oil on canvas
A BUNCH OF HYDRANGEAS.
size 61 cm X 50 cm
reference ; FL D 45
oil on canvas
A RURAL FLORAL BOUQUET.
size 50 cm X 61 cm
reference ; FL F 41
oil on canvas
A BUNCH OF HYDRANGEAS ON A TABLE.
size 61 cm X 50 cm
reference ; FL G 27
oil on canvas
FLOWERS IN A RED VASE.
size 46 cm X 55 cm
reference ; FL F 13
oil on canvas
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FLOWERS IN A WHITE VASE.
size 50 cm X 61 cm
reference ; FL F 21
oil on canvas
A BUNCH OF VARIOUS FLOWERS.
size 50 cm X 61 cm
Reference ; FL F 15
oil on canvas
FLOWERS IN A BLUE VASE.
size 38 cm X 46 cm
Reference ; FL J 15
oil on canvas