BOUQUETS TO ART

Two weeks ago, we visited the de Young Museum, to see the Floral Art Exhibition. It had 113 floral art pieces displayed throughout the museum galleries. I photograph flowers all the time and you can see images of my bouquets at thehealingimages.com. The bouquets in the museum were unique pieces of art, like sculptures. Since they were positioned in front of the permanent art collection on the walls, I discovered art which I did not notice before. Usually, we go to the de Young for their special exhibitions, like the current one, “Ansel Adams in Our Time”, not leaving enough time to see art.

To absorb and appreciate art, we need more time and not to run from one piece to another. I was reading about a famous photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, who before becoming a photographer, was trained as a painter. At the end of his life, he stopped taking photos and returned to painting. He would go to museums and would sit in front of one painting for hours. The well-known phrase, “The Decisive Moment”, which was a mistranslation of the title of his book called “Images à la Sauvette”, became the cornerstone of my type of photography.

Instead of showing you very complicated images of the bouquets, I am sharing with you these three photos of lovely ladies who volunteered in the museum with flowers on their heads, whom I captured in the decisive moment.

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