Description

With its expressive layering of colors mimicking brushstrokes on a canvas, you might assume that George Rodrigue created the silkscreen print Life With the Poppies from an original painting. But like many of Rodrigue’s silkscreen prints, Life With the Poppies doesn’t have a corresponding painting. The work exists only in print form.

Life With the Poppies depicts a group of yellow poppy flowers framing the lower half of the work’s primary subject, the Blue Dog. Historically, the inclusion of flowers in works of art represents themes of renewal, the passage of time, or impermanence. These themes may have influenced Rodrigue’s decision to depict his poppies with various levels of color saturation, reflecting different life cycle stages.

Universally flowers symbolize beauty. As the work’s title suggests, beauty enriches our lives. That beauty can come from flowers, a work of art, or in the case of this print, both in one.

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