Inspiring Floral Designs

Mark Rothko's 1952 painting, #73, inspired Jill Helmer to color block his floral arrangement to go along with Rothko's artwork. The arrangement includes roses, cinnamon spray roses, carnations, miniature carnations, lilies and forsythia.

Mark Rothko's 1952 painting, #73, inspired Jill Helmer to color block his floral arrangement to go along with Rothko's art work. The arrangement includes roses, cinnamon spray roses, miniature carnations, lilies and forsythia.

For the High Museum's Art in Bloom exhibition, floral designers created flower arrangements inspired by artworks in the museum's collection. Floral designer Terry Furuta created this arrangement of yellow oncidium orchids inspired by artist Ellsworth Kelly's 1982 work Red Curve IV.

Two Hummingbirds with an Orchid, painted by Martin Johnson Heade (hummingbirds were a favorite subject of the artist), was the Peachtree Garden Club's inspiration for their floral arrangement. It included cattleya orchid, heather, maidenhair fern, sphagnum moss and Spanish moss.