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Tropical Rococo
Tropical Rococo
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Randy Batista

Tropical Rococo

Artist Sergio Vega (American, born Argentina, 1959)
Date2002
MediumRC print
Dimensionseach sheet: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by the Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Acquisition Fund
Object number2003.19
Collections
Visual DescriptionA blue and yellow macaw rests on a branch, from which leaves and orange-red flowers emerge. In the background, a cloudy sky.
A woman floats on her back in a dark stream, her eyes and mouth slightly open. She wears a voluminous embroidered dress spread across the water, surrounded by dense, lush green foliage, reeds, and scattered floating flowers.
to be/not to be
Sergio Vega
1999
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Sergio Vega
2006
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7. Almolonga – Quezaltenango
Carlos Mérida
1951
A black and white composite photograph showing a deep, pitch-black trench dividing rows of concrete blocks. A smooth, glowing sphere rests within the dark foreground void. In the background is a large hill, piles of gravel, and a cloudy sky.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1979
A black and white composite photograph of a large, open hand facing upward. A smaller hand rests emerges from an opening it its palm. The upper portion depicts dark, shallow water covering smooth stones, with bright, blurred light reflecting across the surface.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1988
Sapphironia Goudoti (Green-breasted Sapphironia) hummingbird with bright green feathers, and a blue and white tail, standing on a branch with green leaves and red and yellow drooping flowers.
Green-breasted Sapphironia
John Gould
1849-1861
Four Spathura Peruana (Peruvian Racket-Tail) hummingbirds including three males and one female. The males have bright green bodies with black spatula tails and orange ruff around their legs; the female has a green back with spotted green and white belly. Two males fly overhead while a male and female stand on the branch of a plant with thin stems, green leaves, and small blue flowers.
Spathura Peruana
John Gould
1849-1861
Three Nextarinia Vigorsii (Vigors' Sun-Bird) birds standing on a plant with green leaves and small pink flowers. The two male birds have blue-green heads and tails, red shoulders, yellow backs, brown wings, orange throats, and gray-brown bellies; the female is gray-brown.
Vigors' Sun-Bird
John Gould
1849-1881
2 Nigella Nana
2 Nigella Nana
Jane Webb Loudon
1840
11 Reevesia Thyrsoidea
11 Reevesia Thyrsoidea
Jane Webb Loudon
1840
Wax print cloth (commercial cloth) with burgundy and lime green floral motifs, burgundy border around neckline and hem; to be worn with one shoulder exposed; knee length The Akwadzan is sewn from wax print fabric, likely produced by Ghana Textiles Production, a Ghanaian company that Chez Julie officially collaborated with during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The background of the wax print is a light shade of coral/salmon, with a repeated medallion pattern of a bird on a branch, surrounded…
Akwadzan (female)
Juliana Kweifio-Okai
late 1960s
A landscape watercolor painting featuring a central, twisted tree with green leaves growing on rocky, brownish terrain. The background shows rolling green hills under a cloudy, grey and blue sky. To the left, a smaller, thin plant is visible.
Monsoon Landscape
Gopal Ghose
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