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Helen Frankenthaler, Monoprint VII

mihaly zichy ‘romantic encounter’ + these violent delights, micah nemerever 

Henry Armitt Brown’s Flower Album and Flower Journal, now with higher quality images.

Mary Oliver, from “I Worried”, Devotions

Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm.

Monet planted the water lilies before he painted them. Monet organized his property at Giverny as though it were a huge painting. Thanks to a small army of gardeners, he diverted a river, planted water lilies, exotic flowers, weeping willows, bamboo trees, and willows. He seeded the pond and added enclosures with white chickens, ducks, and pheasants. Nature, recomposed by the artist, began to resemble his art. "My finest masterpiece," he later said, "is my garden."

Atonement (2007)