Wild Flowers – Oil Painting

This wild flowers painting has rhythm, which is visually depicted rather than musically. When I looked at the beautiful wild flowers beside the road I saw the daisies as notes jumping up and down. Notes of the same size with a variance in how they where facing each other on the bushes. The pattern would have been flat except for the larger corn flowers contrasting the circular shape of the daisy.

In one of my favorite art history classes I was first introduced to the idea of music being depicted visually through the work of Russian artist Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky. His paintings give the overall impression of a marching band or a military fanfare. His use of lines and familiar shapes dance rhythmically upon the canvas emotionally connecting his art to music. I like to keep this in mind when doing a painting like “Wild Flowers”. Instead of having a particular composition in mind I rather like to let my brushwork dance and move as a pattern is revealed.