What would you consider today’s most desired status symbols? A mansion or a beach side home? A designer handbag or clothes? In Rachel Ruysch’s day it was a simple tulip. Looking at her floral still life paintings can reveal an entire hidden world. Rachel Ruysch was born in 1664 in the northern Netherlands. She was born into a wealthy and prominent family; her father a scientist and her mother the daughter of an architect. Her father was a professor of anatomy and botany and also an amateur painter. From a young age Ruysch would draw and paint the insects and plants in her fathers collection. At age fifteen, she was an apprentice to William van Aeist, who was a prominent flower painter in Amsterdam at the time and she studied with him until …show more content…
The Netherlands became the largest importers of new and exotic plants and flowers from around the world (Robinson). Once valued primarily for their use as herbs or medicine, flowers became newly appreciated simply for their beauty and fragrance. They became prized luxuries and desirable status symbols for the wealthy. Botanists and gardeners sought the rarest specimens imported from overseas trade and the tulip was the most exotic.
Flowers In a Vase was a painting that Ruysch painted after 1700. This composition balances a swirl of twisting blossoms along a diagonal axis (Chadwick 138). The variety of blooms and colors, and the painter’s subtle touch and impeccable surface treatment distinguish her work (Chadwick 138). Flowers lavishly spill out of the vase, filling the entire picture space. Some are in full bloom, others droop and wilt, as leaves and curving stems entwine throughout (Robinson). The lighting in this painting falls on the flowers from the bottoms left to top right, leaving the closed peonies at the edge in shadow. Complementary colors create harmony, as warm yellows and rose balance cool blues and greens. Against the dark background, her sophisticated palette creates a flawless sense of depth and three-dimensionality (Wieseman). And looking more closely, the viewer and depict several insects in the painting- caterpillars, ants, and a grasshopper are
Martin Robertson and Mary Beard’s manuscript, Adopting an Approach, focuses on the study of Athenian pottery. The manuscript begins, by describing Sir John Beazley and his revolutionary method of studying Greek vases. The Beazley Method focuses on the technical conventions of Greek Vases such as naming the artist, dating the pieces and then grouping them based off of similar characteristics. Beazley “provided for the first time a comprehensive framework of analysis for Athenian painting, and a way of dating and classifying.” (Pg. 16) However, what Beard’s main argument suggests is that it is not the artists that help us understand the importance of the vases because even if a vase is assigned to a specific time period or artist, there is
Mary Haydock, now formally known as Mary Reibey was born on the 12th May 1777 (source 1) and was raised by her grandmother after both her parents died when Mary was of a young age. Mary was convicted of horse stealing at the age of 13 and was to be sent to Australia for seven years (source 1). Being sent away from her family and in particular her grandmother, meant that Mary was alone and isolated from the people that she would have felt most comfortable around. This lack of belongingness may have caused Mary Reibey depression which was common for convicts of such a young age.
Dinahlee Martinez has a loving personality. She puts others before herself and makes sure everyone around her is well. She is funny, outgoing and can be sensitive at times. For the amount of time we have live with her, we seen how a good of a mother she is. She never gives up on us. She continues to push us in every way. She currently lives in Bloomfield, New Jersey. When she is hungry and wants food from the cafeteria in the student union building, she gets oreo ice-cream and a cheese burger, sometimes even two cheeseburgers. Her mother, Noelia, makes good empanadas and she loves them as well.
The 4 women died while traveling in a limo and it was T-boned by an alleged drunk driver on Long Island while the women enjoyed a weekend tour of the vineyards are being mourned by their relatives and friends. 23 year old Brittney Schulman, and Stepanie Belli of Smithtown and King's Park, respectively; Lauren Baruch, of Smithtown, 24; and Commack's Amy Grabina, 23, were identified as the people who were killed in the accident. These women were among the group of 8 who were celebrating one of the lady's birthdays.
Julia Nackers and her team of eleven dogs will be forever remembered. Julia grew up in a small town near Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin called Sherwood. She was the second of five kids and her family owned many animals. They had rabbits, chickens, cats, and more, but never a dog. When Julia turned eighteen, she bought herself her first Siberian Husky and named the pup Maya. Julia never would have guessed that her Maya would one day become the most widely known lead dog in all of history.
Today we gather here in the remembrance of Megan Marie Brincks. She was known as daughter, mother, and grandmother throughout her life. As a small child, Megan always had a passion for horses just as every other little girl did. Her life revolved around them and her dream job had always been a veterinarian. Throughout junior high and high school that dream remained strong. Although she was involved in volleyball, track, FFA, spanish and book club, horses were still her number one priority.
Once upon a time in a far, far, away town, lived an ordinary girl named Rhonda k. Rhonda k was a great student. She was both athletic, and popular. She had everything going for her except one thing. That one thing was that she had an enemy named Wonita Weisenberger that always wanted to bring her down or be better than her. Rhonda k and her best friend Dorinda never let this happen. Rhonda k was dating the star football player, named F. The other bad thing was that her nemesis Wonita Weisenberger liked F. She would always try to get in between the two. Rhonda k was very upset one day when she went to find her boyfriend and found him talking to Wonita on the bench. Ugh-are they really talking to each other she thought(15). When Rhonda
Imagine being separated from your family when you’re only eight years old. Imagine spending seven months in a 4x6 hole in the ground while being chased by Nazis. This is what Lola Rein endured during the Holocaust.
Orchids & Art, a quaint store tucked away behind Arena Liquor off Corporate Lake Drive in Columbia, Missouri, was brimming with wooden picture frames of various sizes waiting to be picked like ripe apples hanging from an apple tree. Navigating through the back of the store was like trekking through a maze. Glazed frames lay in the walkway, while others were plastered across the wall. An ethereal garden of beautiful orchids sat in a small corner towards the front of the store. Orange and white petals blossomed from pots of assorted shapes and sizes. It added a feminine touch to the masculine wooden frames. Kelly Coalier’s cartoon-like paintings, including one of George Washington with purple guns above his head, sat for
Alexis Janei Yancey died on friday 2080 in South Carolina at the age of 83. she spent most of her time finding a way to help her philadelphia community. Alexis Yancey was known to giving young people advice and comfort. everyone in her community respected and loved her. she was raised to only help people in her family but she didn’t believe that she was brought in world to do that . she felt she was here to help change the world. Her friends loved being around her. she was always the live of the party. even though she could be shy around people she didn’t know, she was only trying to see how they acted around people. she loved everyone around her.
Lena Waithe Makes Emmy History as First African-American Woman to Win for Best Comedy Writing
On May 5th, 1997 Nora Robinson was born in Brooklyn, New York. She grew up with her single-parent mother, who was her best crony. Her house abutted Clarkson Avenue, which is the same street her mom grew up on. Nora was very stoical and not rankled very easily, unless you messed with her sister Carey, who was born on the exact day, except 2 years later. Carey was very gaunt, unlike her more muscular mother and sister, even that the hand-me-down attire that was given to her would never fit. Their personalities were not very divergent, even though that they were both convinced that they were. Their father had been killed in a car accident, and was a very respected man, who had no one feel enmity toward him. Years later, 16 year old Nora and 14 year old Carey were acting like scavengers when they were
Hannah Senesh was born in Budapest, Hungary, on July 17, 1921. She had a younger brother and her parents were an author and a journalist. She was always very talented in writing. Throughout her life, she kept a diary and wrote many poems. She was Jewish, and in 1939, she moved to Israel with her brother because of anti-semitism in Hungary. In Israel, she attended an agricultural school, and later settled at the Kibbutz Sdot Yam. Hannah Senesh was brave, and stood her ground for what she thought was right. She did what she knew what good for other people, even if it hurt her.
Tulips were originally from Turkey, but were brought over to Holland in the 16th century. When Carolus Clusius wrote a major book about tulips, their popularity spiked. In fact, they were so popular, people would regularly steal tulips from his garden. As the Dutch Golden Age grew, so did the flower. Mid-seventeenth century was the height of their popularity. As more people bought tulips, they became more expensive, and were eventually used as currency until everyone got over them.
Central Idea: Flower is important in life as it helps in enormous symbolism, natural remedies for depression and are an integral part of many of life’s ceremonies.