After spending some time with it, do you feel any different?
How does the artist use color to guide your eye through the bouquet?
Do you recognize any of these types of flowers?
Think about these questions as you look:
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Today, we bring you another focus challenge , in which we invite you to spend uninterrupted time looking at a piece of art. The Dutch artist Margareta Haverman painted “A Vase of Flowers” over 300 hundred years ago, in 1716.
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There’s a story about an ancient Greek painter named Zeuxis who, in a painting contest with a rival, painted grapes that looked so realistic the birds flew down and tried to eat them.
As I looked at these grapes by Margareta Haverman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week, I could imagine birds breaking through the ceiling, and
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