Description
The entire landscape is painted in black and white — a cloudy sky, a grassy field with a small white house in the background — only the flowers in the foreground are vividly yellow. Five cosmos flowers on thin stems glow gold amid a grey-brown world, as if they were the only thing worth colour. The contrast between the monochrome landscape and the full-colour flowers is the painting’s essential tension — a simple but effective pictorial cut. The background and the flowers are painted realistically, yet with an expressive texture that is especially present in the sky and the ground. A decorative painting for a living room or kitchen — nostalgic and fresh at once.
