Friday, October 16, 2009

Zantedeschia








































4 comments:

RachelW said...

Such erotic, beautiful plants.

momoxie said...

I love them

momoxie said...

the first photo reminds me of an O'Keefe painting, the second more masculine and the third sublime with the light, shadow, and bridal white against the fertile green. beautiful photos, wanting to be touched.

KGT (aka Cagey) said...

Thanks for the comment RachelW! I couldn't agree with you more. Its no wonder that Diego Rivera liked them so much.

Momoxie- thank you. Interesting that you mention O'Keefe-- did you know that "...During the second half of the nineteenth century, the exotic South African calla lily was introduced in the United States, and it began to appear as a subject in American art. The flower became even more popular with artists after Freud provided a sexual interpretation of its form that added new levels of meaning to depictions of it. The calla lily soon became a recurring motif in works by important painters and photographers, particularly Georgia O'Keeffe, who depicted the flower so many times and in such provocative ways that by the early 1930s she became known as "the lady of the lilies." From a description of the book "Georgia O'Keefe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940."