{"id":6288,"date":"2020-11-17T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2024-04-12T07:08:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T07:08:30","slug":"environmental-art-black-flower-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/environmental-art-black-flower-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental art \u2013 black flower sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/environmental-art-black-sunflower.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary environmental art \u2013 acrylic and watercolour black flower\" title=\"Environmental art \u2013 black sunflower\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Environmental art. Black flower sketch.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Acrylic and watercolour on paper.      2023.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>An acrylic and watercolour painting of a black flower.<br>\nThis painting is an example of my work relating to environmental issues, a subject with which I&#8217;ve been involved since the late 1960s.\nIn this painting the flower&#8217;s petals are black, the flower&#8217;s stem is black, and the grass is black. The flower&#8217;s petals are shrivelled and misshapen and the stem is crooked. It&#8217;s an image of foreboding.<br>\nIn contrast to all this blackness the centre of the flower is reflective gold. But it&#8217;s a dull gold, which may act to reinforce the bleakness of the black rather than creating a glimmer of brightness. It&#8217;s ambiguous.<br>\nThe gold centre to the flower and the spiky petals give a hint of a dying sun or star, with the accompanying implications for life on earth (such as the flower). It&#8217;s a dying sunflower. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental art. Black flower sketch. Acrylic and watercolour on paper. 2023. An acrylic and watercolour painting of a black flower. This painting is an example of my work relating to environmental issues, a subject with which I&#8217;ve been involved since the late 1960s. In this painting the flower&#8217;s petals are black, the flower&#8217;s stem is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41,12],"tags":[29,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8137,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions\/8137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}