Flowers /
As an art student in 1993, Michael De Feo drew a simple bloom that became a familiar and welcome presence in New York after he spent countless nights pasting hundreds of versions of it all over the city's building walls. Twenty-five years later, these flowers have been sighted in more than sixt...
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Abrams,
[2019]
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| Summary: | As an art student in 1993, Michael De Feo drew a simple bloom that became a familiar and welcome presence in New York after he spent countless nights pasting hundreds of versions of it all over the city's building walls. Twenty-five years later, these flowers have been sighted in more than sixty international cities. His street works took a new direction in 2015 when a guerrilla art collective provided him access to the cases that protect bus shelter ads, enabling him to launch a beautiful campaign of his blossoms on top of fashion ads. His art has taken many forms, including a substantial body of studio work inspired by Dutch 17th-century paintings and another series which married floral themes with Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian portraiture. De Feo's colorful and lively book reproduces more than 200 of his flower-inspired images and features commentary from a diverse group of people who have supported his often clandestine work. |
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| Item Description: | Color illustrations on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | 191 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781419730740 1419730746 |