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Ornament - Anne Macdonald
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posted on 2023-05-25, 07:14 authored by MacDonald, ALAs tokens of love and remembrance, floral grave ornaments offer greater longevity than freshly cut flowers. The fragile evanescence of real flowers has, since the 15th Century, made them ideal subjects for representing the transience of life, mortality and death itself. 17th Century Vanitas painters in particular used the iconography of withering flowers as allegories of time, loss and absence
History
Medium
photomedia installationDepartment/School
School of Creative Arts and MediaExtent
24 daysEvent Venue
Carnegie Gallery, Hobart; Artereal, SydneyDate of Event (Start Date)
2008-01-01Rights statement
© Copyright The ArtistRepository Status
- Open