Category Archives: Vegetal art

The uniqueness of gardens in Ancient Egypt

The existence of gardens is as old as culture itself. We find it in early [...]

Botany applied to art

On a hot summer day of 1976, four artist friends met at the tropical conservatory [...]

The Garden of Monsters

In the Italian region of Lascio, and more specifically in the province of Viterbo, we [...]

Floral Algerian tiles

Algeria highlights for its pottery production, still little known. Here are two beautiful examples of [...]

The art of monkey orchids

The vegetal art can also be from natural origin and emulate animal shapes. This is [...]

The Tunnel of Love

It is known in Ukraine as “the tunnel of love”, even though its uses and [...]

The drop of water of Markus Reugels

The photographies of Markus Reugels are true works of art. This German photographer, altough amateur, [...]

Festival of Glycinias

The flowering period of glycinias, those lilac or violet climbing flowers arranged in bunches, is [...]

A simple home made garden

Any space could be used to create a garden. No matter if it is horizontal [...]

Painting with flowers

This extraordinary aerial picture belongs to an ornamental flower crop located in the United States. [...]

Reclining green woman

The unbelievable imagination and expertise of this vegetal woman creator is reflected (and ready to [...]

Exhibition “The color and the cause” at Washington

Many cultures traditionally associate the color green with nature and its attributes, including life, fertility, [...]

Arabic calligraphy on vegetal texture

Nature is omnipresent in the work of the calligrapher Abdessatar Jmei, friend and collaborator of [...]

A tree sculpture by Philip Haas

Visitors to the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC have been perplexed and astonished [...]

The art of ‘atauriques’

The art of arabesques with vegetal motifs, called “ataurique” in spanish (from the arab attawriq), [...]

Sevilian floral ceramic tiles

It is well-known that Seville in southern Spain is the universe of ceramic tiles. Back [...]

The Vertical Garden, from nature to cities

Do plants really need soil? No, they don’t…..The soil is merely nothing more than a [...]

Floral arabic calligraphy

Gardens of Generalife In the photography, a calligraphy by the artist of tunisian origin Abdessatar [...]

Vegetal Patterns in Islamic Art

Vegetal patterns employed alone or in combination with the other major types of ornament—calligraphy, geometric [...]