Floral Explosion

I took a mini-trip up to Santa Barbara this past weekend to visit my friend C.  I had never spent very much time up there so it was nice to see a new place.

C took me to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.  They were having a cool Impressionism exhibit with paintings not commonly seen from the Impressionists.  I actually enjoyed looking at Henri Fantin-Latour's floral paintings the most.  He wasn't an Impressionist but was a friend of theirs I believe.  I want this floral arrangement in my house!

Henri Fantin-Latour, Roses in a Glass Vase, 1873
Oil on canvas
(Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, England)

The museum was also showing contemporary work from Ori Gersht:

Ori Gersht, Blow Up: Untitled 4, 2007. Light jet print mounted on aluminum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museum

You gotta love a curator with a sense of humor.  This exhibit cracked me up seeing the juxtaposition of the Impressionists and Gersht's take on similar objects used by Latour such as flowers.  But seriously, it was cool to see Gersht's digital images, HD videos, and photography printed on aluminum.  The things you can do with technology.  Some of his other photographs have this dream-like quality about them that I love.  

And here is another Linda Kim floral that I finished last night.  I was looking through my box of art supplies and found an unfinished painting from a few years back.  I decided to use Prismacolors and watercolors to fill it in:

Linda Kim, Untitled, 2011.  Mixed media.