Flowers are the centerpiece in the majority of pictorial still-lifes. By painting their colours and forms, artists from Brueghel to OâKeeffe have created symbols for both life and mortality. Van Goghâs sunflowers, Monetâs water lilies and Matisseâs bouquets are, of course, unforgotten. Most of the works contained in Flowers are true masterpieces, which have often marked whole epochs and styles.