Pop Art Floral Images – yes you read that correctly. I had a number of photographs of very architectural plants that I thought might work well if given a ‘pop art treatment’ and I was right.

Pop Art Floral Images

What is Pop Art

But what is Pop Art? Pop Art developed in the 1950s and became popular in the 1960s. Famous Pop Art Artists include David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol (among many others). Subjects used in pop art at that time were advertisements, product packaging (like Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans), comic strips and celebrities. Pop artists used bold, vivid colors in a stylized way and that is the element of pop art that I am referencing here in my floral images. Making things a bit bolder and brighter than the original.

Choosing Architectural Plants

With the architectural plants I chose, my eye went for a tall flower stem with flamboyant flowers, brightly colored or an interesting shape to the leaves, an unusual flower or petal shape and anything spiky!

Eryngium

For example, Eryngium, a glorious plant which has as one of its common names ‘Sea Holly’. It is wonderful and prickly and looks fantastic tucked in among other sun loving plants in a garden. But in my treatment of it, the focus becomes those wonderful architectural spikes!

Dahlia

Another plant that lends itself to being one of my pop art floral images is the dahlia. I believe dahlias originate from Mexico but I can tell you they grew wonderfully well in my Mum’s garden in Brighton, England when I was a kid. We used to pick them to put in vases or to wrap in newspaper to take around to my grandmother’s house. The only thing was they were always full of earwigs! I remember having to shake each flower to ensure the earwigs fell out before we took them indoors. Even then some would get inside the house and we would find them later.

Whilst the dahlia doesn’t have the drama of the prickly Eryngium it does have gloriously structured large flower heads and that is what makes them such a good subject for pop art.

Gaura

But plants don’t have to have dramatic architectural elements to work in my pop art floral images collection. Even plants with small delicate flowers work well like this Gaura, for example, which is also known as ‘bee blossom’. A delicate plant with tall spikes covered in delicate little flowers – but what flowers! Just look at the pretty shape and the long stamen. The flowers really stand out against the stylized green leaves.

Where To Purchase These Images

I have a number of pop art style images at my Redbubble store and they are available on various products including phone cases, throw pillows/scatter cushions, pouches, scarves and tote bags like the one that is shown here – resplendent with a wonderful passion flower presented pop art style.

This was originally posted in 2016 and updated and republished on 8 April 2022.

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My name is Dorothy Berry-Lound an artist and writer. You can find out more about my art and writing at https://dorothyberryloundart.com.

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