This is one of my favorite Symbolist paintings. The most sympathetic representation of Death I’ve ever seen. Everything alive depends on the gifts of past deaths.
has info and links that point to info about this roughly greeting card size painting (best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate linked pages, if necessary).
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s blog entry for yesterday (December 4, 2016), accessible by the Check Out The Blog! box in the right hand column; so, I won’t point to it here.
BE THIS GUY over 7 years ago
During the winter only a skeleton crew worked at the nursery.
PICTO over 7 years ago
The pay isn’t great,but you get to drink all the 2,4-D you want.
katzenbooks45 over 7 years ago
Don’t eat the fruit from the bone orchard…
Andrew Capp over 7 years ago
They’re bone idle.
orinoco womble over 7 years ago
The government has unveiled a master plan to get the dead back into the workforce.
maltmash3r over 7 years ago
Looking at the kid’s nature projects at “Back to Ghoul Night”
Knightman Premium Member over 7 years ago
“Pushing up Daisies” Garden Shop!!!
J Short over 7 years ago
Hemlock Gardens.
brozzerb over 7 years ago
They promised the employees that drinking Miracle Grow cocktails would help them lose weight…
Helen Ferrieux over 7 years ago
Don’t waste time watering ’em…..they all die on us anyway.
prrdh over 7 years ago
Chicago 40th Ward voters waiting for their turns at the voting booths.
Linguist over 7 years ago
Garden of Unearthly Delights
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member over 7 years ago
“This herbal weight loss program really works, folks!”
MeGoNow Premium Member over 7 years ago
This is one of my favorite Symbolist paintings. The most sympathetic representation of Death I’ve ever seen. Everything alive depends on the gifts of past deaths.
Radish the wordsmith over 7 years ago
See Beautiful Rattlesnake Gardens
Steve Dutch over 7 years ago
Yeah, but did they vote?
Lagoulou over 7 years ago
Death giving life to flowers….
mabrndt Premium Member over 7 years ago
3 URLs (copy each as one line):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hugo_Simberg_-_The_Garden_of_Death_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
has info and links that point to info about this roughly greeting card size painting (best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate linked pages, if necessary).
https://babylonbaroque.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/hugo-simberg-dark-optimist/
is a blog entry about the artist, showing some of his other works as well.
Around 10 years later, he did it as a fresco for a Finnish church, shown by this virtual image:
https://www.virtualtampere.com/eng/tampereen-tuomiokirkko/kuoleman-puutarha
Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s blog entry for yesterday (December 4, 2016), accessible by the Check Out The Blog! box in the right hand column; so, I won’t point to it here.
BardAtWork over 7 years ago
“The road to Hell is paved with really weird looking flora.”
cheap_day_return over 7 years ago
Hells Angels afterlife
chain gang charlie over 7 years ago
Looks like the party planners setting up for the Inauguration Ball… in JanuaryA Nation Mourns…..
danketaz Premium Member over 7 years ago
The latest from the test gardens of Monsanto.
Funny_Ha_Ha over 7 years ago
Company Motto “You Reap What You Sow”.
Call me Ishmael over 7 years ago
“Good things from the garden/ garden in the valley/ Valley of the Jolly Green Giant..”
cameron_scarlett over 7 years ago
Glyphosate, It’s not just for breakfast anymore!