To See a World in a Grain of Sand- Iris

After I finished this painting of Arum Lily. I continued to explore how to create artwork from a simple dark background. In the early stages of the idea, I thought of Klimt’s The Kiss.

Klimt’s paintings use a lot of symbolic decorative patterns, brilliant colors, and various strong contrasts, which shows a perfect combination of design sense and artistry. Inspired by his works, I explored to add some decorative patterns to the Chinese painting to achieve the effect of making the traditional Chinese painting decorative. In terms of the choice of flowers, I chose the German iris, which has an elaborate and highly decorative pattern, as my depiction of Echoes Klimt’s painting. In addition, I used the most basic principles of design composition, i.e., point and line to plane, to achieve a decorative effect. And the gold, ink-colored surface, the lines of the iris, and the points that echo the colors of the leaves and the gold surface all contribute to the impact of the composition.