Based on a photograph taken by nature photographer, Patricia Caulfield, Andy Warhol’s Flowers series is one of his most desired portfolios. In this print, Flowers 70, Warhol employed calming pastel colors, which deviates from his typical employment of psychedelic, vibrant colors. The flowers are colored powder blue, honeysuckle yellow and a light orange, set against a pale pink background, with darker pink accents to distinguish the blades of grass. By cropping and slightly abstracting the image, Warhol was able to make it his own image from a “ready made” photograph and change the context. He also accomplished this by inverting the image prior to adding the colors.
