Mira Aronson · No. 162

Bouquet and Moon

Bouquet and Moon turns a simple still-life into a vision. An enormous, exuberant bouquet of flowers fills the canvas, and nestled within or floating beside it are a tiny pair of lovers and a slender crescent moon, the scales of the everyday and the cosmic joyfully confused. Mira Aronson works in Chagall's most generous register, where a vase of flowers can contain an entire love story and the moon can hang at arm's reach. The colour is jewel-rich — deep reds and blues, white blooms glowing against the night — and the composition overflows with abundance and tenderness. The bouquet, in Chagall's world, was always a token of love and celebration, and here it becomes a whole universe in miniature, the lovers cradled among the petals. Aronson paints with a lyrical, dreamlike freedom, scale and gravity bowing to emotion. Joyful, romantic and quietly magical, it offers the viewer a bouquet that is also a cosmos, a gift of flowers that holds the moon and two hearts within it. It is abundance, love and wonder gathered into a single radiant armful.

An original oil painting on canvas by Mira Aronson, painted to order — never a reproduction. Dreamlike folk fantasy — floating lovers, fiddlers and flying figures over moonlit villages in deep blues and reds, in the poetic spirit of Chagall.

Artist

Mira Aronson

Medium

Oil on canvas

Finish

Unframed, ready to hang or frame

Made

To order, by hand