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#flowers #Netherlands #parades #sculpture #Vincent van Gogh
The Annual ‘Corso Zundert’ Parade Honors Van Gogh with Monumental Floats Adorned with Flowers
Photo by Erwin Martens
Another year, another Corso Zundert (previously), the legendary parade of giant floats adored with thousands of dahlia flowers that twist through the narrow streets of Zundert, Netherlands. This year 19 teams took inspiration from the work of Vincent van Gogh who was born in Zundert 162 years ago. The towering floats borrow colors, motifs, and imagery from van Gogh’s painting including several interpretations of the artist’s self-portraits.
Started in 1936, the parade celebrates the region’s reputation as a global supplier of dahlia flowers, an area now covering 33 hectares (81 acres) of 600,000 dahlia bulbs in fifty different species. The first Corso Zundert parades were modest in size featuring horse-drawn carts or bicycles covered in flowers, but the event has since grown dramatically. The floats now merge more ambitious aspects of contemporary/urban art with traditional parade floats as part of a friendly annual competition. You can see plenty more photos over on BN DeStem.
Photo by Werner Pellis
Photo by Werner Pellis
Photo by Malou Evers
Photos by Photo by Werner Pellis
Photos by Joyce van Belkom
Photos by Joyce van Belkom
Photo by Erwin Marten
Photo by Malou Evers
Photo by Werner Pellis
Photo by Erwin Martens
#flowers #Netherlands #parades #sculpture #Vincent van Gogh
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