One of our subscribers, Barbara Zielinski, brought our attention to this wonderful watercolour of a flower by the Dutch Artist, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944). It’s called Blue Chrysanthemum, and probably dates from around 1920.
Mondrian is known mainly for his immediately identifiable abstract art work like this piece:
Throughout his career he drew or painted over 100 works of single flowers as well.
If you enlarge the complete image below you will see, close-up, the complexity of the brushwork which is really as abstract as anything else.
As we zoom out, the flower emerges and we have a link to real life. Isn’t it amazing – and so beautiful?
March 2025