Summer's Promise - Sunflower

by Dora Sofia Caputo

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Summer's Promise - Sunflower

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Dora Sofia Caputo

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Summer's Promise - Sunflower - Dora Sofia Caputo
SYMBOLISM AND MEANING OF SUNFLOWERS - The sunflower’s yellow color symbolizes vitality, intelligence, and happiness. The color yellow also traditionally symbolizes friendship.
Sunflowers also symbolize worship and faithfulness in various religions because of their resemblance to the sun, which is associated with spiritual knowledge and the desire to seek light and truth.
The Incas used sunflowers to symbolize the Sun God, and brought them to temples for worship. The priestesses also wore sunflowers on their garments and as crowns.
Sunflowers have also been used by countless artists. The most well-known portrayal of sunflowers is Van Gogh’s Sunflower series, which includes Vase With Twelve Sunflowers, Two Cut Sunflowers, and Four Cut Sunflowers. Ai WeiWei was also inspired by the flowers in his Sunflower Seeds exhibit, an installation of millions of porcelain seeds handcrafted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in China, symbolizing the relationship between the individual and the masses.
Authors and other influential figures have used sunflower symbolism to inspire them too, causing them to write encouraging words like:
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It’s what the sunflowers do. – Helen Keller
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows. – Jean Paul
Light-enchanted sunflower, thou/ Who gazest ever true and tender/ On the sun’s revolving splendour. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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July 7th, 2016

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