Poppys 5 is a photograph by Florence Fitzgerald which was uploaded on March 18th, 2013.
Poppys 5
Serial digital art of 6, working with shadow, digital texture and movement.... more
Title
Poppys 5
Artist
Florence Fitzgerald
Medium
Photograph - Sculpture
Description
Serial digital art of 6, working with shadow, digital texture and movement.
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Greeting and Posters, March 2013
A shadow is an area where direct light from a light source cannot reach due to obstruction by an object. It occupies all of the space behind an opaque object with light in front of it. The cross section of a shadow is a two-dimensional silhouette, or reverse projection of the object blocking the light. The sun causes many objects to have shadows and at certain times of the day, when the sun is at certain heights, the lengths of shadows change.
For the texture of the shadows, I choose to work on a field of red poppies. The Poppy is a flowering plant of the family Papaveraceae. Ornamental poppies are grown for their colorful flowers; some varieties of poppy are used as food, whilst other varieties produce the powerful medicinal alkaloid opium which has been used since ancient times to create analgesic and narcotic medicinal and recreational drugs. Following the trench warfare of the 1st World War which took place in the poppy fields of Flanders, red poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime.
Uploaded
March 18th, 2013
