Furen da aka raina

Les fleurs dédaignées wani zane ne na 1925 na ɗan Ostiraliya Hilda Rix Nicholas .

 Bayanin Mai Zane 
An haifi Emily Hilda Rix (wanda aka fi sani da Hilda) a Ballarat, Victoria a ranar 1 ga Satumba, 1884.  Ta yi horo a National Gallery of Victoria Art School daga 1902 zuwa 1905, inda wani babban memba na Makarantar Heidelberg, Frederick McCubbin, ya koyar da ita. Bayan mutuwar mahaifinta a 1906, iyalinta suka yi tafiya zuwa Ingila a farkon 1907, inda Hilda Rix ta yi horo na ɗan lokaci kafin daga baya ta koma Paris. A can ta yi karatu a Académie Delecluse, ta ɗauki darasi tare da ɗan Amurka Richard Emil Miller, kuma ta halarci Académie de la Grande Chaumière, inda mai zane-zane 'yar ƙasar Switzerland Théophile Steinlen ta koyar da ita. Bayan ta yi nasarar nuna ayyukan da aka zana a arewacin Afirka, da kuma wani aure mai ban tausayi wanda ya ƙare cikin makonni lokacin da aka kashe mijinta, Matson Nicholas, a Yammacin Yamma, Rix Nicholas ya koma Australia.  Rix Nicholas ya yi baje kolin zane da zane a Ostiraliya a farkon shekarun 1920, kafin ya koma Faransa a shekarar 1924.

 Zane 
A shekarar 1925, Rix Nicholas ta ƙirƙiro ɗaya daga cikin ayyukanta mafi ban mamaki, wanda kuma shine mafi girman zane a cikin zane. Tsawonsa ya kai kusan 2 metres (6.6 ft) da 128 centimetres (4.20 ft) faɗin, Les fleurs dédaignées ("Furayen da aka raina") hoton wata matashiya ce mai ban tsoro [1] kuma "kama" [1] wacce ke sanye da kayan zamani na ƙarni na sha takwas. Ba a yi mata fenti da dabarar mai zane ba, amma a cikin salon ladabi, mai kallon yana fuskantar mai kallo amma yana kallon baya, yanayinta yana da tsauri, tare da tarin furanni da aka watsar a ƙasa kusa da gefen babban rigarta ta al'ada.[1] [1] Ma'anar yanayinta da yanayinta ya shagaltar da masu suka. Yayin da Pigot ya ɗauki batun a matsayin "mai tsauri",[1] sauran marubuta ba su da tabbas. Jennifer Gall ta yi tunanin cewa batun yana wakiltar motsin rai mai tayar da hankali, tare da bambanci da gangan tsakanin yanayi mai daɗi da kuma magana mai raini.[2] Mai zane Carole Best ba ta cikin shakka ba, tana kammala da cewa batun "a bayyane yake an yi fushi da shi". [3] Mai kula da Anne Gray ta National Gallery of Australia ta lura da "zafin motsin rai mai yawa da ke fitowa daga batun", amma ta yi mamakin ko batun ne cewa mutumin ya fusata, ko kuma ko fuskarta za ta iya zama "ƙanƙarar murmushi?"[1]

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