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Apr '07
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Hidden Profiles

Category: Art, Insight

violet

“This Visual game of hiding the profiles of political figures in sprays of flowers (or in the branches and leaves of trees) was a way of simultaneously conveying support and celebrating them by floral association……”

“Napoleon’s assurance to this supporters, on being exiled to Elba, that he would return in the Spring - “the violet season”- was celebrated in the display of bunches of violets, and in numerous prints of the flower with this profile hidden in them……”

Source - the playful eyes




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