Les Fleurs du Mal

2024

In Les Fleurs du Mal, Zuzanna explores floral art, drawing inspiration from both the past and the future. This series discovers the intricate beauty of flower paintings, using AI-generated images as the foundation for each piece.

Les Fleurs du Mal plays with the fascinating historical notion that photography would herald the end of painting and therefore AI would end creativity. Contrary to this belief, Zuzanna’s work celebrates a new form of artistic creation—one that transcends reality and ventures into hyperreality. Each painting is a vivid reinterpretation of AI-generated images, inspired by the work of late 19th-century Japanese photographer Ogawa Kazumasa.

Through this series, Zuzanna challenges the boundaries of artistic mediums, illustrating how modern technology can breathe new life into classical themes. Les Fleurs du Mal invites viewers to experience a dynamic fusion of past and present, where the delicate essence of Kazumasa's floral photography is reimagined through the lens of artificial intelligence and the timeless craft of painting.

Minimalistic room with a bench and houseplant with Magnolia painting hanged on the wall. Painting has a branch of magnolia flowers against dark green background.
Magnolia, 100x100cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Painting of Zuzanna Rajewska depicting a vintage portrait of a Japanese woman who's face is partially covered with pink irys flowers.
Iris, 50x50 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Oil painting depicting a strelitzia flower against the vivid red background with dramatic light
Strelizia, 100x120 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Oil painting with a branch of white orchid flowers agains the dark blue background.
Orchid 100x100 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Oil painting of fully blown pink lily over the gradient green-blue background.
Lily, 100x100 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Minimalistic oil painting of four dark violet zandeschia flowers against the light blue even background.
Zandeschia, 100x120 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Oil painting with two yellow tulips touching each other as if they were kissing againts the dar brown background.
Tulips, 100x100 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Vivid red bleeding chrysantemum flowers on the dark blue background
Chrysantemums, 100x120 cm, oil on canvas, 2024
Oil painting of three white-pink peonies over the blue background.
Peonies, 100x100 cm, oil on canvas, 2024