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Flowers and plants are different from landscapes or nar rat ive theme, i t's generally more difficult to produce lyrical moods from express the emotion through flowers, however Lin Fengmian did it. As botanical specimens of objective things, the artist refine the most representative part of his spiritual qualities, put them together to present its unique ideology and charm, convey self emotion through the progress at the same time. During the works creative process, he usually uses a scenery poetic rich in color, shape, space to describe elegant and mysterious bottled flowers etc. still life. In terms of method, he also used a lot of Chinese painting brush pen and papers, used squareness composition, the flower still life launched in fan shape, the level of flowers spreading, size, interspersed very wonderful. Dazzling color, composition of the picture original and fluent. Among them, cactus is a theme that has been represented a lot. And this work different to other more realist works that the flower still life produced cacti in pink. The bottle of cacti full of green in this Cacti is not like a bottle of cacti grows inside, but more like spontaneous run from somewhere else, provisional docked in the vial, showed gestures, performance bearing. Elegant, and have strong sense of vitality because of the corresponding background. Signature of the artist signed in the upper right match the whole picture form, showed the picture extra harmonious and coherent.

Lin Fengmian's expression is often like this, people can said it's not like but also very like, and even more vivid, afford for thought than the real one. Sometimes good arts are not completely faithful to objects. This work created in early 1980s, Lin Fengmian already settled down in Hongkong with life conditions improved. The outstanding part of Lin Fengmian is that no matter how bumpy his fate was, he can always create warmth works which can win audiences' knowing smile through his hands of art.