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Art and Nature: Flower Painting as a Vehicle for Modernism in the Work of Vida Lahey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Glenn Cooke
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With the winnowing of time and the emphasis given to particular artists in our constructed histories of art (be it international, national or regional) it is often difficult to determine why artists were considered to be innovatory in their time. The works so judged survive but not the context which enabled them to achieve this prominence. So it is with Vida Lahey. It may seem a desperate measure to consider a flower painter as a vehicle for modernist ideas, but the art environment in Brisbane was particularly conservative and Vida Lahey's vibrant flower paintings were a significant presence.

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Queensland Review , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , April 1995 , pp. 42 - 52
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