30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge: Day 14

A Rose By Any Other Name
Copyright 2013 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12"
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Juliet:

What's in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet;

So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,

Retain that dear perfection which he owes

Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,

And for that name which is no part of thee

Take all myself.

Romeo:

I take thee at thy word:

Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;

Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
-Shakespeare

So I was almost desperate to come up with more names for these flower paintings.... and then I thought of this favorite passage from Shakespeare.  The point being that it doesn't even matter what something is called, but what it embodies.

Love?  Ha ha