Dahlias in Art and Vintage Advertising

Darce · 2023-02-11T21:27:10+00:00

Ted posted some beautiful dahlias in vintage advertising a while back on cubit. I thought it might be a fun late winter thing to get a collection going of d...

SteveM

les pétales de fleur - circa 2009.
My attempt at Impressionist photography using dahlias and dahlia petals. The concept was good but the execution lacked patience.🙂

blown_dry

@Teddahlia SteveM
applause

Darce

SteveM

I love this! Particularly the dark purple petals to create a moody backdrop- this is a striking concept and I would love to see more of your experiments in ‘painting’ with petals - a gardener’s variation of the Pointillist school! Sunday in the Garden with Steve M😊

AndreaB

SteveM My attempt at Impressionist photography using dahlias and dahlia petals.

I love this, Steve. The colors are gorgeous. Never would have known it was rushed if you hadn’t squealed on yourself. 😉

PNWGal

SteveM Brilliant! I always figured there should be something cool to do with all those petals from blooms that shatter!

Darce

Teddahlia

With gas prices fluctuating - maybe the one perfect limo is not such a great get anymore😂
I’d still rather have the perfect dahlia

Darce

Honnat
The Victorians and Edwardians loved the shaggy opulence of a bed head dahlia but earlier painters went nuts for precise geometrical petal formation! It’s absolutely amazing what hybridisers did in Europe in the early 1800s. I found this really great and informative short piece from the UK Garden Trust on this- and my info is from it. The dahlia was first taken from its native lands by the Spanish and then was passed to and fro between various Spanish, French and German horticultural scientists and plantsmen in the last part of the 1790s. It hits Britain around 1802 and this image of a single species red dahlia was published in a British botanical magazine in 1804.

https://thegardenstrust.blog/2018/08/11/dahlias/

Darce

Hybridisers are amazing! They spread the new dahlia wealth SO quickly.In just a few short years dahlias start to show up in paintings like this 1817 stunner by Dutch painter George Jacobus Johannes Van Os. The dahlias are still single but we have a lovely warm pink as well as red

All the images are public access from wiki commons

Darce

In roughly 3 plus decades after its introduction to Europe the dahlia - via the amazing efforts of hybridisers- had turned into a multiplicity of dazzling formal perfection. Look at this 1935 painting by Delacroix

Darce

Darce
Ha need to get another coffee - obviously it’s supposed to be painting by Delacroix in 1835 not 1935 -whoops!

Darce

And in the 1835- 1840 works by Danish still life painter Johan Laurentz Jenson are SO amazingly detailed! The flowers look like they could have come from a Swan’s catalogue.

Darce

Final and my favorite painting from Jensen - I absolutely want to purchase some of these dahlias! I feel like these are the ancestors of some of our most favourite ones - I know that black dahlia would sell out in a hot minute

blown_dry

Wow!!

Darce

blown_dry
I know…that last painting is so super in dahlia representation !
That black dahlia looks similar in color to that unicorn dahlia Czarny Charakter - pic from cowlitz Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/crdahlias/photos/czarny-charakter/2001758599846909/

SteveM

PNWGal Thank you! It looks like my original post was somehow deleted. Probably my Kat when I wasn't looking. 🙂

Darce

SteveM I am still seeing one picture of your lovely work - if you have another that got deleted please resubmit! I am hoping others will submit their artistic efforts too

SteveM

Darce I am seeing the quote by @blown_dry which includes the photo but my original post above Amanda's says "[deleted]". I will interogate my Kat to see what magic keyboard shortcut she used to delete it. 🙂

AndreaB

SteveM It’s there and still looking gorgeous!

SteveM

AndreaB Thanks! Strange, yes, now it's back. I hope I am not having a stroke. My Kat DOES enjoy playing tricks on me if I don't cook her chicken breasts to perfection. Maybe that is it..,.

JessE

SteveM Steve,from a photography standpoint, if you had pulled that arrangement forward, away from the backdrop more, you could have blurred it a little... or just blur the background post editing!

blown_dry

I've noticed today that there's a glitch where my own posts say they are by [deleted] but when I reload the page it's fixed. shrug

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