Irma Stern’s visual fascination with the natural world is clearly demonstrated in her still lifes, which span her full career from the 1920s to the 1960s. These depictions of flower arrangements provided the artist with an opportunity for formal experimentation, and Sunflowers illustrates perfectly the rich colours and brushwork that are typical of Stern’s work in this genre. Sunflowers is naturalistic and descriptive; it manages to combine an intensity of expression with a true sense of character and colour. The deep, sensuous blues and greens of the leaves and vase are complemented by bright accents of the golden sunflowers. In keeping with a typically Expressionist style, Stern makes use of thick impasto applied in short assertive brushstrokes, especially apparent in the moulding of the table surface and flower petals. This energetic and expressive paint application combines with the lush colours to create a uniquely colourful and vital interpretation of the traditional still life. This sensual and eclectic still life sees the artist at her most inspired; it is a quintessential Stern, infused with drama and executed with an elegant and masterful control.
About the Canvas Prints
Sunflowers - Irma Stern - Floral Painting by Irma Stern. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed onto our premium processed canvases and then stretched on a white maple wooden frame (gallery wrap) or framed inside black maple (framed canvas). Your canvas print will be shipped within 4 days in "ready to frame" condition for normal rolled and "ready to hang" condition for frames and wraps with pre-attached hanging wire and/or mounting points.