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Description: | This is the original artwork for an Underground poster promoting Kew Gardens. It was designed by Pascale Petit in 1990 as part of the Art on the Underground series. This was an initiative set up to help revive the artistic tradition of London Transport posters.
Petit used pastels, ink and a collage technique to create this striking image which measures over 1.3 metres high and nearly 1 metre wide.
Petit described how she was 'particularly drawn to the prehistoric cycads, which were one of the first trees on earth, and therefore the first oxygen-makers'. She wanted to present the cycads in the glasshouse as 'life forces'. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | London Transport Museum collection | Subjects: | Environment Leisure Art and Design | Temporal: | 1990 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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