Flowers, Love, Revolution And Art

Flowers, Love, Revolution and Art

Introduction

Flowers have been present in society since time immemorial, as a sample of love, disdain or, simply, as libertarian symbols. The flowers are given to conquer, to greet the mother, to express happiness at a birth, and put themselves in cemeteries to honor the memory of our relatives. To acquire them, which better than approaching the Santiago flower and plants market, where we can find a varied offer of roses, sunflowers, lilium, astromelia, among others. Also, you can buy flower baskets, vases, birth gifts, birthday, anniversary, floral arrangements, girlfriend branches, etc.

Developing

Where does the tradition of giving flowers born?

It is unknown, exactly, when the tradition of giving flowers begins. However, if we can affirm that flowers are given from the Middle Ages. In texts of those years you can verify the presence of flowers as something significant, thus it is reflected in, in miracles of Our Lady of Gonzalo de Berceo, a book that tells 25 miraculous facts carried out by the Virgin Mary: The vegetable of the meadow of the meadow, the smell of flowers,/ the shadows of the trees of early flavors/ cooled my everything, and lost the sweats/ can live the man with those smells.

In the Victorian era, a manual was created where the meaning of each flower was codified, the intention that can exist behind it and the social codes attributed to them. Although it is pointed out that florigraphy, as the language of flowers is called, comes from Persia and that this manual already existed in the seventeenth century.

The tradition of giving flowers and the importance of these in society, are reflected in the literature, painting and music of all times.

Spring / flowers are coming, I will choose one of them / the most beautiful of all, / before the wind passes, / and you can take it. / It will be my confidant/ I will speak very soft. This extract of the poem the most beautiful flower ”that is part of the first book, twilight, by Pablo Nerud. 

In the nightingale and the rose, a story written by Oscar Wilde, we can know the story of a nightingale who stains a rose, nailing in his chest the spine of the rosebody, in order to obtain a red rose, that a young student should deliver toThe maiden who was in love.

In art, Ecce Ancilla Domini (known as the Annunciation) painting by the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the announcement with the Archangel Gabriel is represented, giving a lily to the Virgin Mary.

In music, a twine of violet iconic song played by Zalo Reyes, the ramite of violets represents a hidden love and hope. On the subject I will give you one rose every day, by Alberto Cortez, the rose represents the love he feels for his wife, although they cannot conceive children. In or perhaps he simply gives him a rose, Leonardo Favio talks about the waiting of his crush.

The flowers, symbol of rebellion and freedom. But the flowers, also, have talked about freedom and revolutions. The Flower Revolution, as the hippie movement of the late 1960s and the beginning of the 70s is recognized, is born as a criticism and rejection of society, condemning its materialism, its violence, its mediocrity and its bureaucracy.

The Revolution of the Carnations, in 1974, represents the end of the military dictatorship in Portugal, where, the inhabitants of Lisbon gave red carnations to the raised as a gesture of the excite. The Jasmine Revolution, Tunisia National Flor. In 2011, protesters overthrew the autocratic regime of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, using the Jasmine Los Jasmines as a symbol.

conclusion

Encouraged by the first successes of the popular uprisings in the Arab world, known as the Arab spring, in China there were protests in which the participants carried jasmine. Less known to us, it is what happened in Georgia, where there was a revolt with a flower name: the Rosas Revolution, of 2003, which led to the fall of President Eduard Schewardnadse. The protesters took an appointment of the first Georgian president: we will launch roses instead of bullets against our enemies.

The Tulipanes Revolution, which occurred in February 2005 in Kyrgyzstan, uprising, whose symbol were tulips, caused the fall of President Akayev. On the contrary, Sensu, the Thai government, decided to invest the classic ritual and ordered the police to give flowers to the protesters during the 2013 protests.

Whether to conquer, to greet the mother, to express love, to demonstrate and desire a new mother for her son, to start a revolution, or simply for the desire to admire the beauty of flowers, visit the marketof flowers and plants from Santiago.