Decay Vanitas Exhibition Analysis
What Once Was There
In this Vanitas exhibition, the theme of decay will be used to relate 3 artworks, one traditional and two contemporary; specifically in relation to physical decay and historical decay. The three artists for these works have been precisely chosen to relate to Decay and encourage young audiences to understand how Vanitas relates to todays society.
The three selected artworks will be presented in the gallery with a target audience of youth. Society itself is decaying when it comes to our knowledge of our history, over time things and people have been forgotten, this is why influencing the young audience to view this exhibition will allow them to have an insight towards Vanitas and its history. Vanitas its self …show more content…
The clever combinations of objects in the vibrant photograph enhance Marian Drew’s use of minimalism. The discomforting placement of the watermelon and the wombat next to each other was to symbolize the clash between nature and culture. The wombat’s limpness and quietly shocking destruction of domestic order has been created by drew to make the audience aware of how senseless Australia has become to road kill. Animals like wombats, fruit bats, bandicoots and galahs aren’t even the pinnacle of how environmentally mortifying the littering of roadside animals is in Australia. Together, both the Melon and the wombat are seen as two completely different and complex objects when in reality, they are similar in the way as how overlooked each one is in their natural environment. Usually a dead wombat on the side of the road would just go unnoticed, but when it has been placed with something like a watermelon – that’s known for its hot summer day sustenance - does the reality of how desensitized we have all become to this vulgar and dismaying …show more content…
A meaningful and ingenious creation using glitter and Swarovski crystal to highlight different features on the work, Mallor has drawn upon the 19th century look of Chinese porcelain by crossing the characteristic blue and white with the recognizable Australian animals, and indigenous culture. The element of value can been envisaged by identifying the blue in the work with how landscape has been transformed through the historical interaction of people and how the original landscape has now decayed and we are left with very minimal wildlife and fauna that we had originally. The element of colour can be linked back to early colonization of Australia, which shows the naturalistic and figurative elements that would have been considered animals. This work is trying to show the viewpoint of how the indigenous are people along with their perspective of the landscape being equal.
In this Vanitas exhibition, the theme of decay will be used to relate 3 artworks, one traditional and two contemporary; specifically in relation to physical decay and historical decay. The three artists for these works have been precisely chosen to relate to Decay and encourage young audiences to understand how Vanitas relates to todays society.
The three selected artworks will be presented in the gallery with a target audience of youth. Society itself is decaying when it comes to our knowledge of our history, over time things and people have been forgotten, this is why influencing the young audience to view this exhibition will allow them to have an insight towards Vanitas and its history. Vanitas its self …show more content…
The clever combinations of objects in the vibrant photograph enhance Marian Drew’s use of minimalism. The discomforting placement of the watermelon and the wombat next to each other was to symbolize the clash between nature and culture. The wombat’s limpness and quietly shocking destruction of domestic order has been created by drew to make the audience aware of how senseless Australia has become to road kill. Animals like wombats, fruit bats, bandicoots and galahs aren’t even the pinnacle of how environmentally mortifying the littering of roadside animals is in Australia. Together, both the Melon and the wombat are seen as two completely different and complex objects when in reality, they are similar in the way as how overlooked each one is in their natural environment. Usually a dead wombat on the side of the road would just go unnoticed, but when it has been placed with something like a watermelon – that’s known for its hot summer day sustenance - does the reality of how desensitized we have all become to this vulgar and dismaying …show more content…
A meaningful and ingenious creation using glitter and Swarovski crystal to highlight different features on the work, Mallor has drawn upon the 19th century look of Chinese porcelain by crossing the characteristic blue and white with the recognizable Australian animals, and indigenous culture. The element of value can been envisaged by identifying the blue in the work with how landscape has been transformed through the historical interaction of people and how the original landscape has now decayed and we are left with very minimal wildlife and fauna that we had originally. The element of colour can be linked back to early colonization of Australia, which shows the naturalistic and figurative elements that would have been considered animals. This work is trying to show the viewpoint of how the indigenous are people along with their perspective of the landscape being equal.