His collage-assemblage "Great American Nude No. 50" is an inspired takeoff on the conjunction of high art and mass culture: an advertising cutout of a smiling model in a bright red dress, smoking a cigarette and reading a book, sprawls on a couch beneath a Renoir painting; beside her is a swipe from a still life of apples by Cézanne and a vase from a Redon flower study.
The page focused on a flower study Charlotte had completed in watercolors while she was still in school.
Among the items is a work of needlepoint, a flower study, completed by Charlotte Brontë around 1840.
In the platinum-print section, the pairing of pictures of the Partridge boys with Cunningham's flower studies is brilliant.
Compared with the surprising vitality of the vegetable still lifes, though, many of the flower studies here, especially the tulips, seem quite tame.
Excluding both Weston's portraits and Modotti's own famous flower studies, the show concentrates, instead, on her social documentary work in Mexico between 1923 and 1930.
For a while she produced bold and elegant flower studies, then in the 1890's she took up photography; her young daughter served as her convenient subject in intense and eloquent images.
So much so, in fact, that a few years ago one of her flower studies (Roses, from 1924) commanded nearly $200,000 at auction in New York, an unprecedented amount for the sale of a photograph.
Qiu Ying, Wade-Giles romanization Ch'iu Ying, (born c. 1494 died c. 1559 or 1561, Taicang, Jiangsu province, China), Chinese painter noted for his gongbi brush technique, used to produce highly detailed figure and architectural paintings and flower studies.
The notorious X Portfolio resulting from this foray is often treated as an anomalous subset within the artist's larger body of work, consisting mostly of classical nudes, flower studies and celebrity portraits (select flowers would come to form a Y Portfolio, select black nudes a Z), usually for the purpose of minimizing the disruption to an otherwise robustly healthy artistic career.
Delacroix is represented by several pieces, including a double pencil portrait of his elder brother, Charles-Henry, and an 1849 sheet of flower studies -- asters, I think, but done as fluffy bursts in pastel -- that he probably whipped off in the Jardin des Plantes.
