The Atlanta Botanical Garden is celebrating another magnificent Orchid Daze exhibition. For more than a decade, the Garden has celebrated this incredibly popular flowering plant with a signature display.
The last three exhibitions—including 2015—have been fashioned after a specific style of art. This year the focus is on Pop Art.
Orchid Daze: Pop! features three famous pop artists, each iteration located in a different area. And I love that they always print—on a wall, on the floor, floating in mid-air—a quote from the featured artists. Be sure to look for each of them!
Entering the Fuqua Conservatory lobby, where the first Pop artist is featured, you immediately recognize who it is.
The dozens of soup cans and the brightly colored triptychs just scream Andy Warhol!
One of my favorites of his, and you'll probably know it too, is "Marilyn" Portfolio of 10 Silkscreens, part of the permanent collection at the nearby High Museum of Art. It's not currently on exhibit, but I distinctly remember seeing it in 2011.
If you're an orchid enthusiast, and so many of the people I know are, may I recommend subscribing to the Garden's orchid blog—The Orchid Column. It's authored by Becky Brinkman, who's more than an orchidologist. She's an excellent writer and a magnificent photographer! I think you'll really enjoy the blog. I certainly have.
The blog has its own Instagram account, too!
Keith Haring, another personal favorite—evidently I like Pop Art more than I thought I did!—is featured in the Orchid Atrium in the Orchid Center. There's no denying that his work is one of the most widely recognized "visual languages" of the 20th Century. That fascination and his activism even today remain impressive.
What's your most prevalent memory of Pop Art?
As of this writing, there's one more Orchid Market Weekend scheduled during this exhibition. It features live orchids, orchid supplies, art, jewelry and more...including orchid advice!
The only remaining 2015 Orchid Market Weekend is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, April 4-5.
I took a couple of friends to see Orchid Daze: Pop! last weekend when the annual Atlanta Orchid Show, presented by the Atlanta Orchid Society, was at the Garden. I didn't make as many photos as I usually do, but my friends enjoyed it immensely! If you've never seen it, be sure to watch for the announcement from the Garden for next year's Orchid Show.
If you've ever been a fan of comic books and are of a certain age, you can't not know the work of Roy Lichtenstein! Of course he's not a comic artist...he's an artist who often used comics to inspire his work...his magnificent work!
Tomorrow is the first day of spring and it brings with it the annual Atlanta Blooms! exhibition. Visitors will enjoy hundreds of thousands of blossoms, a great many of them my personal favorite flower...tulips!
Atlanta Blooms! is seasonal and the length of the exhibition is determined totally by Mother Nature, but when I was there last weekend there were quite a few daffodils and other bulbs, including tulips, already making an appearance.
Orchid Daze: Pop! is on display at the Atlanta Botanical Garden through Sunday, April 12. See you at the Garden!
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| Orchid Daze: Pop! - Atlanta Botanical Garden |
The last three exhibitions—including 2015—have been fashioned after a specific style of art. This year the focus is on Pop Art.
Orchid Daze: Pop! features three famous pop artists, each iteration located in a different area. And I love that they always print—on a wall, on the floor, floating in mid-air—a quote from the featured artists. Be sure to look for each of them!
 |
| Orchid Daze: Pop! - Atlanta Botanical Garden |
Entering the Fuqua Conservatory lobby, where the first Pop artist is featured, you immediately recognize who it is.
 |
| Orchid Daze: Pop! - Atlanta Botanical Garden |
The dozens of soup cans and the brightly colored triptychs just scream Andy Warhol!
One of my favorites of his, and you'll probably know it too, is "Marilyn" Portfolio of 10 Silkscreens, part of the permanent collection at the nearby High Museum of Art. It's not currently on exhibit, but I distinctly remember seeing it in 2011.
 |
| Orchid Daze: Pop! - Atlanta Botanical Garden |
If you're an orchid enthusiast, and so many of the people I know are, may I recommend subscribing to the Garden's orchid blog—The Orchid Column. It's authored by Becky Brinkman, who's more than an orchidologist. She's an excellent writer and a magnificent photographer! I think you'll really enjoy the blog. I certainly have.
The blog has its own Instagram account, too!
 |
| Orchid Daze: Pop! - Atlanta Botanical Garden |
Keith Haring, another personal favorite—evidently I like Pop Art more than I thought I did!—is featured in the Orchid Atrium in the Orchid Center. There's no denying that his work is one of the most widely recognized "visual languages" of the 20th Century. That fascination and his activism even today remain impressive.
 |
| Orchid Daze: Pop! - Atlanta Botanical Garden |
What's your most prevalent memory of Pop Art?
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| Orchid Daze: Pop! - Atlanta Botanical Garden |
As of this writing, there's one more Orchid Market Weekend scheduled during this exhibition. It features live orchids, orchid supplies, art, jewelry and more...including orchid advice!
The only remaining 2015 Orchid Market Weekend is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, April 4-5.
I took a couple of friends to see Orchid Daze: Pop! last weekend when the annual Atlanta Orchid Show, presented by the Atlanta Orchid Society, was at the Garden. I didn't make as many photos as I usually do, but my friends enjoyed it immensely! If you've never seen it, be sure to watch for the announcement from the Garden for next year's Orchid Show.
 |
| Orchid Daze: Pop! - Atlanta Botanical Garden |
If you've ever been a fan of comic books and are of a certain age, you can't not know the work of Roy Lichtenstein! Of course he's not a comic artist...he's an artist who often used comics to inspire his work...his magnificent work!
 |
| Orchid Daze: Pop! - Atlanta Botanical Garden |
Tomorrow is the first day of spring and it brings with it the annual Atlanta Blooms! exhibition. Visitors will enjoy hundreds of thousands of blossoms, a great many of them my personal favorite flower...tulips!
Atlanta Blooms! is seasonal and the length of the exhibition is determined totally by Mother Nature, but when I was there last weekend there were quite a few daffodils and other bulbs, including tulips, already making an appearance.
 |
| Orchid Daze: Pop! - Atlanta Botanical Garden |
Orchid Daze: Pop! is on display at the Atlanta Botanical Garden through Sunday, April 12. See you at the Garden!
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