Blooming Art - Part Two

The second part of my Art in Bloom tour at the Milwaukee Art Museum takes us to the galleries of Early European Art, 19th Century European Art, and American Art up to 1900.

This is Madonna and Child, painted around 1350 in Florence,Italy, which was at the very start of the great Black Plague in Europe. I like how the floral design incorporates the halos in the artwork...

Moses Presenting the Tablets of Law (French ca 1648)


Still Life with a Crab, Pieter Claesz (early 1600s)...

Look how the Gooseneck Loosestrife resembles the claws of the crab!

Corrado Giaquinto (1752) The triumph of Galatea...


Another favorite of mine, this design represents the suit of armour...


This was another favorite floral design interpreting Gustave Caillebotte's Boating on the Yerres (French, 1877)...one of the award winners of the show...


A floral interpretation of an Austrian settee circa 1815:


The Rivals (Little Kittens) 1885:



Tarbells' Three Sisters. I love this painting and I'm sorry I didn't get a decent shot of it and it's floral interpretation...


Lastly, here is one of my favorite art pieces in the museum called the Wood Gatherer (Pere Jacques), by French artist Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1881.


And, my loose floral interpretation of the piece :)


Hope you enjoyed my Art in Bloom tour!

Blooming Art at the Milwaukee Art Museum - Part One

Welcome to the second annual Art in Bloom event at the Milwaukee Art Museum! I was privileged to attend this beautiful event and a guided tour by my docent friend. Top local floral designers were chosen to participate and each had their art piece picked by lottery. Their job was to interpret the chosen art piece by creative use of flowers and their arrangement.



We enter Windhover Hall in the Calatrava wing of the museum and are greeted by our resident Chihuly blown glass piece which is approximately 20 feet high:



Windhover hall is very stark with its white floors, walls and ceilings overlooking blue Lake Michigan. You can enjoy the art or a simple lunch overlooking the lake. For this event, Windhover hall was chosen to be the starting point of the Art in Bloom exhibit. Three magnificent bronze sculpures greeted us with the floral interpretations of their stark white surroundings.






No flash photograph and no tripods are allowed in our museum so the low lighting resulted in many blurred shots :(

Our first stop is in the Bradley Exhibit which features modern art. The first is The Horseman by Marc Chagall and its floral interpretation...


A WWII German concentration camp survivor artist and floral interpretation. Our museum is known for it's collection of German WWII survivor art...



The Cock of the Liberation (of France by Nazis) by Picasso and floral interpretation...









I really liked this interpretation:



My favorite of the modern exhibit interpretations, a Georgia O'Keefe Poppies painting and floral interpretation:


Part Two coming soon:)