During Corona Days we had to stay safe in our own shells. I painted oisters imagining how the water flows through. But seashells also hint at eroticism. A longstanding symbol of the goddess Venus, shells signaled fertility. It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, to notice the predominance of shell imagery in the work of artists exploring Rococo aesthetics today.
During Corona Days we had to stay safe in our own shells. I painted oisters imagining how the water flows through. But seashells also hint at eroticism. A longstanding symbol of the goddess Venus, shells signaled fertility. It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, to notice the predominance of shell imagery in the work of artists exploring Rococo aesthetics today.
During Corona Days we had to stay safe in our own shells. I painted oisters imagining how the water flows through. But seashells also hint at eroticism. A longstanding symbol of the goddess Venus, shells signaled fertility. It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, to notice the predominance of shell imagery in the work of artists exploring Rococo aesthetics today.
During Corona Days we had to stay safe in our own shells. I painted oisters imagining how the water flows through. But seashells also hint at eroticism. A longstanding symbol of the goddess Venus, shells signaled fertility. It’s perhaps unsurprising, then, to notice the predominance of shell imagery in the work of artists exploring Rococo aesthetics today.
