Flowers at the museum, Part 3

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Many of the flower arrangements in the Flora in Winter (http://www.worcesterart.org/events/Flora/flora-in-winter-2015/) exhibit are tied with specific pieces of artwork.

I have no idea how they pick which pieces of artwork get flowers or why. Some seem to match well, some only a bit and some not at all.
This leads to much discussion between my wife and myself and sometimes other folks at the museum.
We normally start at the museum’s top floor and work out way down. So, they are more or less in that order and not by any kind of theme or anything.

This is from the Art of the Americas on the top floor. And, one I don’t think works all that well. Sure, they are towers near a stone tower. But, that’s about it.


This one was done to match an Aztec piece on their ball sport. I guess it matches, but it is a bit too literal.


This one was difficult. When I first saw it I thought it was supposed to go with the top center painting.

But, when I read the sign it said it goes with the bottom center piece. That I don’t see.


I wasn’t the only one. The woman there at the same time had the same question and asked I go read the sign to confirm what it said.

But, that’s what it said…

This is another I don’t think worked all that well. At least the got the colors right, but I don’t think they captured anything of the spirit of the piece.


This one I do think they captured the spirit well.


My wife and I both felt this one captured the flavor of the painting quite well.

Especially when you see they actually had incorporated bone into the piece.

Now, I don’t really like that painting. But, that doesn’t stop me from thinking they portrayed it well in flowers.

This one did seem to capture some of the feel of the base artwork.

I’ve probably seen that piece of art work a dozen or so times. I never knew it was supposed to be a representation of the fall of Troy with the victims run over by the Trojan horse.
I’m not complaining. Just saying that looking at this never made me think "Troy!"


This one I think was totally off. I don’t at all see how you get that collection of flowers from that painting. It’s a nice collection of flowers. But, I don’t see how they go together.


This one was better. It seemed to at least capture the color and shape of the painting. My wife thought it a really good match. I think it only and OK match. But, it is certainly better than some.


Like this one. Don’t think this fit it at all.


Or this one.

Other than a vague color similarity I just don’t see it as a good match.


I thought this was a better match than my wife. The pointy bits as angel wings. She didn’t like the red ribbon.


She did really think this was a good match. And the colors were certainly close in person. Not sure about the photo…


Neither one of us thought this was a great job. The grapes in the gel just seemed strange to me. Certainly didn’t seem to get this point of the painting.


This one did seem to get the same sort of feel as the painting. We did both agree it is far more simple than the painting. But that vertical feeling with the blue pulling up seemed to cross over well.


I thought this was a very good match. It was clearly a bust of a person to me.

They even used some bark to match the hand.

My wife seemed to think it a bit too literal of taking the shapes in the painting. But, to me it was a great match.

I didn’t like this one at all. Come on, a bowl of flowers to represent two vertical people looking at a vertical statue? Doesn’t even tie the second dress colors in well.


We both thought this one did tie well together. Granted the differences between the last one I didn’t like and this are subtle. But, this matches shape and color much better and I thought matched up well.


This was one of my wife’s favorites. I agree they tie well together, but didn’t like it quite as much as she did.


This one I think was very good. The whole room is the art piece. It’s part of a monastery transported here from France.
While the flowers don’t match shape or color of the actual art, I think it works very well in it and enhances it well.


They were having a comest for who matched the mural best.

My wife voted. I didn’t.

Another one I just don’t think tied it together well.


Although this didn’t match color at all, the way the fern bent around the top did remind me of the headpiece on the statue.


This just seemed too literal a translation of the jade bowl. But, I’m not sure how else to render a jade bowl.


I was told that this wasn’t supposed to match shape or color, but instead match the "serenity seen on the statue’s face". Personally I don’t get that. But, I’m not sure it is wrong.


This was a confusing one. I stared at it and said, "well, maybe that its got green and is wide at the base and then tall."

But, it doesn’t go with that at all.
It is supposed to go with this:

That is very strange to me as with the lighting and placement it is hard to even see them together.


This is another one I didn’t get.

It’s three statues. They had a whole bunch of white vertical flowers. I’d think it would have matched better with three distinct pillars of flowers.

But, over all it was still very interesting.
And, it certainly gave my wife and I a lot to talk about.