June bouquet and a lemon, oil on linen painting, 55 x 55 cm (21.6 x 21.6 inches)
Ah, all that abundance of the colors of the flowers of June! Take the roses, to start with: cadmium red, pale pink, magenta, then all the yellows of the common bird’s- foot trefoil, whites of queen Anne’s lace, purple comfrey, green grasses! Vertigo of a bold palette, trembling in the early summer sunlight. Colors that promise a long summer to come……
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. Pablo Picasso
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. Vincent van Gogh
I always notice flowers. Andy Warhol
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