Art Imitates Life
Phrase: “art imitates life”. The observation that a creative work was inspired by true events; based on a true story or something in reality.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “flower” was chosen by Margaret, (The Pocket Rocket)
It struck me as I looked through my archive of photos, how much art does imitate life. Anyone who views my photostream or knows me personally, is aware that I love flowers and that I also love Art Nouveau design and stained glass, so I decided to create this collage for the “Snap Happy” theme this week as it combines three of my great passions.
Top left: This beautiful Art Nouveau stained glass door panel featuring a stylised poppy bloom in vermilion and green rippled glass used to be in the upstairs of a rather large two storey Edwardian residence in the Melbourne suburb of Thornbury. I came across this panel amid a pile of building debris when the house was being partially demolished to allow modifications to the property to allow the construction of two rather vulgar and unattractive box-like town houses. I walked past at just the right time of day as the afternoon sun streamed through the glass, illuminating the colour in the glass. I do not know what happened to this panel, as it, like all the other building detritus was gone two days later. I only hope that it has been taken to an architectural salvagers where it may find a new home.
Top right: A luscious red poppy with velvety petals that I photographed in the Cloudehill Gardens in Olinda in January 2020 whilst on my summer holidays. Made on an easterly slope at the top of the Dandenongs, Cloudehill is at an altitude of 580 metres. The garden has deep volcanic loam soil and receives around 1.25 metres of rainfall each year. This falls most of the year, though February, March and April are drier. There is little frost, more snow than frost in fact. These factors go to explain why the Dandenongs are one of the outstanding places to garden worldwide.
Bottom left: A red Kardinal 85 Hybrid Tea Rose which I photographed in the Victoria State Rose Garden in Werribee in January 2020 whilst on my summer holidays. The Kardinal 85 Hybrid Tea Rose was bred by Reimer Kordes in Germany in 1985 (hence its spelling). As there are a number of other roses named Kardinal which were introduced earlier, this rose carries the unusual date factor in its registered name. The Kardinal 85 has bright red flowers, upright growth with a light fragrance. Unfortunately, its breeding has also given it a profusion of very sharp thorns! With over five thousand roses covering about five hectares, the Victoria State Rose Garden is one of the tourist gems of Victoria.
Bottom right: This beautiful Art Nouveau stained glass red rose features in a window in the front bar of the old Keating\'s Hotel in Woodend, country Victoria. It is one of my favourite examples of Art Nouveau stained glass that I have ever had the pleasure of photographing (and I’ve photographed quite a bit of it!) For me it represents so much of the beauty in the stylised design of Art Nouveau artworks, and is not dissimilar to the rose designs of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (5 November 1864 – 7 January 1933) was an English born artist who worked in Scotland, and whose design work became one of the defining features of the "Glasgow Style" during the 1890s. Her husband was Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Art Imitates Life
Phrase: “art imitates life”. The observation that a creative work was inspired by true events; based on a true story or something in reality.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, “flower” was chosen by Margaret, (The Pocket Rocket)
It struck me as I looked through my archive of photos, how much art does imitate life. Anyone who views my photostream or knows me personally, is aware that I love flowers and that I also love Art Nouveau design and stained glass, so I decided to create this collage for the “Snap Happy” theme this week as it combines three of my great passions.
Top left: This beautiful Art Nouveau stained glass door panel featuring a stylised poppy bloom in vermilion and green rippled glass used to be in the upstairs of a rather large two storey Edwardian residence in the Melbourne suburb of Thornbury. I came across this panel amid a pile of building debris when the house was being partially demolished to allow modifications to the property to allow the construction of two rather vulgar and unattractive box-like town houses. I walked past at just the right time of day as the afternoon sun streamed through the glass, illuminating the colour in the glass. I do not know what happened to this panel, as it, like all the other building detritus was gone two days later. I only hope that it has been taken to an architectural salvagers where it may find a new home.
Top right: A luscious red poppy with velvety petals that I photographed in the Cloudehill Gardens in Olinda in January 2020 whilst on my summer holidays. Made on an easterly slope at the top of the Dandenongs, Cloudehill is at an altitude of 580 metres. The garden has deep volcanic loam soil and receives around 1.25 metres of rainfall each year. This falls most of the year, though February, March and April are drier. There is little frost, more snow than frost in fact. These factors go to explain why the Dandenongs are one of the outstanding places to garden worldwide.
Bottom left: A red Kardinal 85 Hybrid Tea Rose which I photographed in the Victoria State Rose Garden in Werribee in January 2020 whilst on my summer holidays. The Kardinal 85 Hybrid Tea Rose was bred by Reimer Kordes in Germany in 1985 (hence its spelling). As there are a number of other roses named Kardinal which were introduced earlier, this rose carries the unusual date factor in its registered name. The Kardinal 85 has bright red flowers, upright growth with a light fragrance. Unfortunately, its breeding has also given it a profusion of very sharp thorns! With over five thousand roses covering about five hectares, the Victoria State Rose Garden is one of the tourist gems of Victoria.
Bottom right: This beautiful Art Nouveau stained glass red rose features in a window in the front bar of the old Keating\'s Hotel in Woodend, country Victoria. It is one of my favourite examples of Art Nouveau stained glass that I have ever had the pleasure of photographing (and I’ve photographed quite a bit of it!) For me it represents so much of the beauty in the stylised design of Art Nouveau artworks, and is not dissimilar to the rose designs of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (5 November 1864 – 7 January 1933) was an English born artist who worked in Scotland, and whose design work became one of the defining features of the "Glasgow Style" during the 1890s. Her husband was Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.