40 colorful flower tattoos pictures

40 colorfull flower tattoos photos have been posted in the category "Flower tattoos".

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The tattoos that are containing flower images in themselves, can have much deeper meaning than just beautiful picture on body, as many people can think. The flowers are the symbols of nature and everything natural, of its greatness, beauty full of mysteries and assortment. In different countries and in different cultures the meaning of every flower was different. However any flower in a certain culture could find its own individual meaning.

There are, however, several different and key, as well as most widely known and acknowledged in certain areas, flower compositions. In the East, for example, a great philosophical and spiritual role is played by lotus and cherry tree. In the West the most popular flower tattoo designs are known to be the rose and the lilac. It is necessary to underline that the most different cult and traditional meanings of such flowers can be transferred from the flowers themselves to the tattoos. Flowers often become the state symbols or emblems of different organizations.

Flower tattoo as a kind of art can be more often met among women kinds of tattoos because of its meaning of beauty of nature and its correspondence to the beauty of the female body. The great importance has in the meaning of flower tattoo also a color in which the flower is depicted. The color can influence or even change the meaning of the flower dramatically. The symbolism that is lying at the base of any flower is usually very mysterious and hidden. Its mysteries come to us from the mythology and folklore of different countries of the world. Therefore each culture understands the symbolic meaning of the flowers differently and that's why we get the difference and richness of images and meanings of tattoos.

Here are some examples of what flower tattoos can mean.

Four list clover.

The symbolic meaning of clover today is very vast and interesting. The clover symbolizes the divine triad, three sides of the world and human being that is divided into the inner spirit, eternal soul and mortal body. Among the ancient Egyptians the great gods Osiris and Isis were wearing the clover depiction on their hats.

Lotus tattoo is very popular as well. It is nowadays one of the most famous, universal and widely acknowledged symbols of the East and its culture. Lotus is known to be the flower of perfection, it means life and death, resurrection and striving for the truth, purity and eternity, to spiritual growth and development.