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The Happy Garden, 2004 (oil on linen)

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SUN429300
Image title
The Happy Garden, 2004 (oil on linen)
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Artist
Quinn, Ged (b.1963) / English
Location
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear, UK
Medium
oil on linen
Date
2004 AD (C21st AD)
Dimensions
183x215 cms
Image description

Ged Quinn has painted his picture in a style reminiscent of 17th-century country-house views. He shows us a traditional, ordered kind of beauty. However, the perfection of the gardens is undermined from within. The patterns of the planting imitate the structure of viruses such as HIV. The picture is characteristic of the artist's work, in which he uses versions of historical artistic styles to reflect on events and threats in modern life;

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© Sunderland Museums / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
21st century / allegory / tree / trees / walls / rural / allegory / formal garden / english landscape / countryside / walled / welcome / house / Painting / Mzpainting
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