Sentences with phrase «flower painting tradition»

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His gargantuan semi-abstract paintings of fruit and flowers are credited with merging process art with the still life tradition of Western painting.

The long tradition of flower paintings extended to the modern era and botanical elements found its place in almost every art genre that followed.

While the rich iconography of flowers in the tradition of still - life painting does indeed subliminally allude to mortality, Warhol's Paris show seemed to expand on the notion of transience that flowers also embody.

On the occasion of the opening of his current exhibition «flowers, nudes, and birch trees: New Paintings 2015,» at Lehmann Maupin in New York, I sat down to speak with him about tradition, nature, and why art is «pornography and comfort food for the spiritually inept.»