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Ancient Art's theme for 2024 is an exploration of "Flowers in Artwork," blending the timeless beauty of flowers with the expressive power of art. Flowers have been more than just subjects on a canvas; they've been storytellers, capturing the essence of cultural traditions, styles and emotions. They represent life's fleeting beauty and have been a source of inspiration and joy for artists and admirers alike.
Some ideas before we get into the details on what to make with this yarn...
Window into Winter - a lovely crocheted shawl
Sassles - a fun knitted shawl in two colors by NellKnits
Sharon's Pre Game by Casapinka - an assymetrical shawl in two colors with a great stitch!
Now a bit about July's colorway!
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a founding member of the Impressionist movement, and his works during this period focused on everyday people, street scenes, and his local surroundings. Chrysanthemums represents the genre of impressionist flower painting, wherein artists worked to capture the fleeting qualities of light and color through loose and open brushwork. Still life floral paintings were composed so as to bring to the viewer a sense of life and natural beauty, indicative of the impressionist fascination with capturing transitory moments of beautiful colour. With these works, Impressionist painters strove to document sensory experiences instead of replicating reality with minute precision. Practicality also factored into the production of still life paintings in the 1880s, since still lives were a genre that sold much better at this time then did paintings of more innovative or ambitious subjects. Renoir also became well known for his portraits, and was highly sought after by wealthy patrons. As he gained financial independence due to his portraiture work, he moved away from Impressionism and began to adopt the more classic styles of the old masters and then the colourful and sensuous beauty of 18th century French art.
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