Armistice Day - Poppies Upright and Poppies Reversed Painting

My grandfather left college in the US to drive an ambulance on the front in WWI before the US joined the war effort. November 11, 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI. Poppies have long been a symbol of remembrance (and protest on behalf of) all who died in that horrendous war. I wanted to paint poppies in a new way, especially in light of all the current events that suggest too many people, including those in power in the US and Europe, have forgotten the lessons and are forsaking their duty to the fallen soldiers. It struck me that borrowing from the concept in the Tarot of upright and reversed symbolic meanings could convey some of both the hope and the near desperate concern about the horrors of war, the failure of collective and individual memory and what is owed to the fallen soldiers. I like that the medium is watercolor on paper. Both are fragile and require care, much like a poppy, but also have an extraordinary beauty to them.

Painting:Watercolor on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:10 W x 7 H x 0.1 D in

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