Home/Symbols/Life‑cycle bouquetLife‑cycle bouquet SymbolismThe stages of a flower’s life—bud, bloom, and seed head—standing for time’s passage and renewal.Common ThemesMedium reflexivity (art about art)Originality, authorship, and appropriationCare, nursing, and compassionMortality & transience (memento mori)Seasons & cyclesEnvironmental degradationArtworks Featuring This SymbolSunflowersVincent van Gogh (1888)Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers (1888) is a <strong>yellow-on-yellow</strong> still life that stages a full <strong>cycle of life</strong> in fifteen blooms, from fresh buds to brittle seed heads. The thick impasto, green shocks of stem and bract, and the vase signed <strong>“Vincent”</strong> turn a humble bouquet into an emblem of endurance and fellowship <sup>[1]</sup><sup>[2]</sup>.
