Eyes and ears.
Tucson wall art. Detail of Red Glasses quilt by Artsy Chick. Iris Apfel’s signature glasses.
The Bowerbird collects electric blue.
The male Satin Bowerbird collects fragments of vibrant blue to woo his lady love.
Dancers as urban sculpture.
Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner twists dancers into urban sculptures.
The woman who sewed glorious golden dresses for Gustav Klimt.
Emilie Floge—seamstress extraordinaire and Klimt’s life companion—sewed the mosaic-inspired dresses his models wore. Adele Bloch-Bauer is wearing one in this 1907 portrait.
In-your-face florals.
Venice street art. Shoulder tattoo. Graffiti flowers. And more.
Sun’s rays.
The Borges family of woodcut artists like to illuminate the rays of the sun with a block of assertive color.