CHOOSING A PAINTING of flowering shrubs as my inspiration for this month’s arrangement might seem a bit like cheating. But in “Azalea Garden: May 1956,” British artist Patrick Heron (1920-1999) so distorts his image of the namesake plants—almost pixelating them with his paintbrush—that I deemed the work fair game. Heron’s composition packs the large-scale canvas (roughly 5 feet by 4 feet) with an explosion of brush strokes in a effervescent palette. Contemplating them, the eye dances back and forth, up and down. Though he...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 15, 2019 16:18 UTC