Red Poppies original watercolor painting

by Georgeta Blanaru

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$350

Dimensions

11.000 x 16.000 inches

Title

Red Poppies original watercolor painting

Artist

Georgeta Blanaru

Medium

Painting - Watercolor On Special Paper

Description

All flowers are beautiful. Poppies have something special.
Poppies have long been used as a symbol of sleep, peace, and death: sleep because of the opium extracted from them, and death because of the common blood-red color of the red poppy in particular. In Greek and Roman myths, poppies were used as offerings to the dead. Poppies used as emblems on tombstones symbolize eternal sleep. This symbolism was evoked in the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in which a magical poppy field threatened to make the protagonists sleep forever.

A second interpretation of poppies in Classical mythology is that the bright scarlet colour signifies a promise of resurrection after death. Poppies are sometimes used for symbolic reasons, such as in remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime.

Most species of poppies are attractive and are cultivated as ornamental plants. A few species have other uses, principally as sources of drugs and foods.

I used watercolor 140 lbs, 300g, paper. It's ready to be framed.

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September 5th, 2012

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