The exhibition presents 14 artworks that highlight Kahlo's engagement with nature in her native country of Mexico, as seen in her garden, decoration of her home and in the complex
use of plant imagery found in her paintings.
This blockbuster exhibition is the first to examine Frida Kahlo's keen appreciation for the beauty and variety of the natural world, as evidenced by her home and garden as well as the complex
use of plant imagery in her artwork.
Not exact matches
It
used lifestyle
imagery to raise awareness and start conversations by showcasing content featuring a woman's mastectomy scars, as well as a wealthy female entrepreneur managing a greenhouse full
of cannabis
plants.
Like any good poet she
uses rich
imagery - animal and
plants and spices to describe her love, and the message is there for all who will read: this is not a woman who will be stopped in her pursuit
of what she wants.
Therapists then
use the power
of positive
imagery to
plant suggestions in a client's mind to help them better cope with the condition they want to treat.
Herem was commissioned to create his large - scale drawing
of the front
of the building when The
Plant realised the similarities between his style and and the detailed
imagery exhibited in archived drawings by architect Sir Edwin Cooper, which it
used as research.
Using plant matter, layered
imagery, sounds, and animal remains, Hamilton creates immersive spaces that consider the role
of the American landscape in concepts
of «Americana» and social constructions
of space, particularly within the rural South.
In her tapestries, paintings, installation and sculpture, Nkanga
uses her body and other organic material —
plants, grasses and fruit — as catalysts to reveal the shifting nature
of objects,
imagery, narratives.
Drawing Roots
uses actual seeds that germinate within the paper to create
imagery with the sprouts and roots, while Papers
of Place are made from actual
plants gathered from the detritus
of the garden in the form
of regenerated pulp and collage.
The weaving or «re-wilding»
of my body through the
use of animal and
plant imagery aids in my queries into the social and sexual assumptions most humans have about their own, as well as all other, species.
He has
used strong words and
imagery before to drive home points, including comparing cordons
of coal cars heading to power
plants to the death trains
of the Holocaust (because
of the mass extinctions foreseen by many biologists should warming go unabated).