When the artist first began to exhibit her Botanical Art she was surprised to have many viewers comment in a negative way that the paintings were sexual.That various parts of the plants depicted were very highly suggestive. For many years the impact of these comments made her feel apologetic. Very often attempting to explain that the message of the plants are that all life is related and that this is a very positive awareness.
What Is Wrong With Plants Being Sexual?
Stamford, New York- (mmd-news) - - That's what the artist Ann DuBois is now asking, after years of being told that her paintings of plants are beautiful but too sexy.
When the artist first began to exhibit her Botanical Art she was surprised to have many viewers comment in a negative way that the paintings were sexual.That various parts of the plants depicted were very highly suggestive. For many years the impact of these comments made her feel apologetic. Very often attempting to explain that the message of the plants are that all life is related and that this is a very positive awareness.On one occasion at the very last minute her one of a kind Artist's Book of the poems "Fruits & Vegetables" authored by Erica Jong was withdrawn from an exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. because it was deemed unfit for a family audience. As time went on the artist started to question why it was objectionable and controversial and just plain bad that her plant paintings remind people that like themselves plants reproduce sexually.She discovered that she had a kindred soul in the Botanist and Poet Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles,whose epic poem " Temple of Nature" published in the eighteenth century was criticized for making it apparent that plants are sexual.As a result of this sense of kinship, although one would have hoped that we had made more progress in three centuries,his foundation has commissioned her to do an original work for them.Despite rejection, controversy and very antiquated responses to her work the artists continues to seek out the audience that knows and celebrates that all of life is connected and that reproduction is by its very nature sexual for us all.A very beautiful thing.
Contact:
Ann DuBois
DuBoisWorks
607 652-4018
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