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Classic floral paintings are works of art which represents a subject composed of inanimate objects. Popular in the West since the 17th century, floral art give the painters more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do artworks of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture. Classical flower painters such as Jan van Eyck often used art nouveau flower elements as part of an iconographic program so dense that scholars to this day are still debating the possible symbolic significance of each floral painting of such as roses and sunflowers.

Flower paintings can include multiple disciplines like still life, with the most important thing being that they are colorful. Other than bird paintings, flower oil paintings is where the most color will be used, and the most creatively. That doesn’t mean that all flower paintings are bright and colorful, as there are plenty with neutral colors that are popular. Because of the many ways flowers can be used, they have even found their way into world famous Baroque paintings throughout history. Flower paintings don’t always have to focus solely on flowers as the main point in the painting, making them very flexible for content and collection. -- The Copyright of Scripts is Reserved by Toperfect.