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Ornament - Anne Macdonald

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posted on 2023-05-25, 07:14 authored by MacDonald, AL
As 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 installation

Department/School

School of Creative Arts and Media

Extent

24 days

Event Venue

Carnegie Gallery, Hobart; Artereal, Sydney

Date of Event (Start Date)

2008-01-01

Rights statement

© Copyright The Artist

Repository Status

  • Open

Socio-economic Objectives

The creative arts

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