| "Collapse of Adonis" 42.25" x 36" Oil on Canvas Synopsis: Lowe has exaggerated the myth of Venus and Adonis from Ovid’s Metamorphoses by reinterpreting the Rubens drawing of the same title, c.1604. Lowe intensifies the lamentation of Venus (for her lover Adonis) who has just been fatally gored by a wild boar through the use of Rubens’ Council of the Gods c.1602. Lowe’s abstract painterly application references the cyclical nature of life as illustrated in Ovid’s epic poem. This work is an allegory of |
| humanity’s postmortem metamorphosis into elements of the natural environment. |
