- Hydrangeas, whose blues depend on the pH level of the soil they’re in, are fickle—the more alkaline the soil, the pinker the flowers. Increase acidity to make the flowers turn blue (however, only the flowers of Hydrangea macrophylla change colors and it’s best to choose blue cultivars). Check out the hydrangea collection in the Home Gardening Center.
- Bottle gentian (Gentiana andrewsii) in the Native Plant Garden is a late summer/fall bloomer with dark blue flowers, while summer gentian (Gentiana septemfida) can be found in the Rock Garden.
- Several sage cultivars (Salvia) are blue. Look for them along the Ladies’ Border, in the Perennial Garden, and the Home Gardening Center.
- Admire tall larkspur (Delphinium exaltatum) towering in the Native Plant Garden.
- The unusual looking sea-holly (Eryngium × zabelii ‘Big Blue’) can be seen in the Perennial Garden and Seasonal Walk.
- A colorful fall delight, leadwort (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides) grows in the Rock Garden.
- Visit the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory to view blue passionflower (Passiflora caerulea).
- Another autumn favorite, aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium ‘October Skies’) is in the Azalea Garden, Native Plant Garden, and Perennial Garden.
- Behold great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica) as it graces the Native Plant Garden.
- Blue mist shrub (Caryopteris × clandonensis ‘Longwood Blue’) is a cloud of sky-blue late summer flowers in the Perennial Garden.
A Companion to Impressionism
Presenting an expansive view of the study of Impressionism, this extraordinary volume breaks new thematic ground while also reconsidering established questions surrounding the definition, chronology, and membership of the Impressionist movement. In 34 original essays from established and emerging scholars, this collection considers a diverse range of developing topics and offers new critical approaches to the interpretation of Impressionist art.
Focusing on the 1860s to 1890s, this Companion explores artists who are well-represented in Impressionist studies, including Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Cassatt, as well as Morisot, Caillebotte, Bazille, and other significant yet lesser-known artists. The essays cover a wide variety of methodologies in addressing such topics as Impressionism’s global predominance at the turn of the 20th century, the relationship between Impressionism and the emergence of new media, the materials and techniques of the Impressionists, and the movement’s exhibition and reception history. Part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History series, this important new addition to scholarship in this field:
- Reevaluates the origins, chronology, and critical reception of French Impressionism
- Discusses Impressionism’s account of modern identity in the contexts of race, nationality, gender, and sexuality
- Explores the global reach and influence of Impressionism in Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, North Africa, and the Americas
- Considers Impressionism’s relationship to the emergence of film and photography in the 19th century
- Considers Impressionism’s representation of the private sphere as compared to its depictions of public issues such as empire, finance, and environmental change
- Addresses the Impressionist market and clientele, period criticism, and exhibition displays from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century
- Features original essays by academics, curators, and conservators from around the world, including those from France, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Turkey, and Argentina
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Impressionism is an invaluable text for students and academics studying Impressionism and late 19th century European art, Post-Impressionism, modern art, and modern French cultural history.
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Have fun Live with The Art Sherpa during this BEGINNER HOW TO PAINT art lesson in acrylic art tutorial. This is an easy, fun, social art lesson for canvas. We talk about art and other fun subjects. With help and guidance, anyone can paint. You can paint!
Want to see something? Just comment! Tell me what you’d like to paint, or what you want to know about art. This is YOUR art journey. Open your heart and access your art.
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Artwork is the property of Cinnamon Cooney and The Art Sherpa LLC. and is intended for the personal enjoyment of the student. You may sell, donate or Gift a painting you do following one of my lessons in a private setting. If a paintings you make of my original design are offered for sale in a retail setting of any kind ( this includes online) , please attribute ‘Original design by Cinnamon Cooney, The Art Sherpa. www.theartsherpa.com’ Please, create no prints or mechanical reproductions of your paintings of my original design. This is a violation of my copyright and use policy.
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It’s Not Easy Being Blue
Kristine Paulus is NYBG’s Plant Records Manager. She is responsible for the curation of The Lionel Goldfrank III Computerized Catalog of the Living Collections. She manages nomenclature standards and the plant labels for all exhibitions, gardens, and collections, while coordinating with staff, scientists, students, and the public on all garden-related plant information.
Just about every color in the spectrum is represented somewhere in The New York Botanical Garden, but this summer blue is particularly significant. According to scientific studies, the hue is the most universally liked by humanity and so visitors to the Garden will certainly be pleased at the sight of the evocation of Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory The celebrated Mexican painter’s famous blue house was closely studied, enabling exhibitions staff to precisely match a backdrop of cobalt-blue walls for FRIDA KAHLO: Art, Garden, Life.
It’s not surprising that Frida chose this shade for her abode. Blue has more symbolic meanings than any other color. As the tint of life-giving water and of the sky, home to numerous deities of many cultures, blue has been held in high regard throughout time. In art and in life it has been reserved for the most important people and things, including Pharaohs, Renaissance Madonnas, and Elvis’ shoes. The first synthetic pigment ever created, invented by the Ancient Egyptians, was, of course, blue! The pursuit of the perfect blue has molded entire civilizations. [1]
Though a multitude of adjectives are used to characterize the range of values from azure, to cerulean, cyan, turquoise, and ultramarine, one simple primary color is used to describe a song note and a musical genre, an artistic period, a type of person, a lunar phase, or a mood. Yet, despite the cultural importance of this chroma, blue is rare in nature—perhaps that is what makes it so special. Minerals and stones such as azurite and lapis lazuli are not so common, as with birds or insects, which more frequently have warmer tones instead.
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Plants bearing blue flowers are even rarer. Less than 10 percent of the 280,000 species of flowering plants produce blue flowers. [2] Plants don’t have a true blue pigment. Instead, they modify their red anthocyanin pigments and perform some complicated alterations of molecules and ions, with a dash of smoke and mirrors for effect (actually, reflected light—but I’ll leave it to our friends in Science to better explain that one).
Embrace the rarity of this spectacle and walk the Garden’s grounds to see some of our beautiful blue-flowering plants blooming now:
- Hydrangeas, whose blues depend on the pH level of the soil they’re in, are fickle—the more alkaline the soil, the pinker the flowers. Increase acidity to make the flowers turn blue (however, only the flowers of Hydrangea macrophylla change colors and it’s best to choose blue cultivars). Check out the hydrangea collection in the Home Gardening Center.
- Bottle gentian (Gentiana andrewsii) in the Native Plant Garden is a late summer/fall bloomer with dark blue flowers, while summer gentian (Gentiana septemfida) can be found in the Rock Garden.
- Several sage cultivars (Salvia) are blue. Look for them along the Ladies’ Border, in the Perennial Garden, and the Home Gardening Center.
- Admire tall larkspur (Delphinium exaltatum) towering in the Native Plant Garden.
- The unusual looking sea-holly (Eryngium × zabelii ‘Big Blue’) can be seen in the Perennial Garden and Seasonal Walk.
- A colorful fall delight, leadwort (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides) grows in the Rock Garden.
- Visit the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory to view blue passionflower (Passiflora caerulea).
- Another autumn favorite, aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium ‘October Skies’) is in the Azalea Garden, Native Plant Garden, and Perennial Garden.
- Behold great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica) as it graces the Native Plant Garden.
- Blue mist shrub (Caryopteris × clandonensis ‘Longwood Blue’) is a cloud of sky-blue late summer flowers in the Perennial Garden.
However, if you miss any of the plants that are putting out blue flowers as you read this, come back in spring to see a profusion of blue floral displays such as Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica) in the Native Plant Garden; glory-of-the snow (Chionodoxa forbesii ‘Blue Giant’) in the Perennial Garden and on Wamsler Rock; lilac cultivars (Syringa sp.) such as ‘Porcelain Blue’, ‘Wedgewood Blue’, ‘Wonderblue’ in the Lilac Collection; Grecian windflower (Anemone blanda ‘Blue Shades’) in the Ladies’ Border; Siberian bugloss (Brunnera macrophylla) in the Azalea Garden and Home Gardening Center; camas (Camassia sp.) in Everett Children’s Adventure Garden; bluestar (Amsonia sp.) in the Azalea Garden, Native Plant Garden, and Perennial Garden; blue ornamental onion (Allium caeruleum) in the Rock Garden and Ladies’ Border; and narrowleaf blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) in the Native Plant Garden.
Although blue flowers are anything but ordinary, the collections and exhibitions at the New York Botanical Garden are sure to provide plenty of visual pleasure to those who enjoy this beguiling color, and there’s a good chance that includes you.
[1] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (2015). Blue: Cobalt to cerulean in art and culture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.
[2] Lee, D. W. (2007). Nature’s palette: The science of plant color. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
