Screenprint on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ian-hamilton-finlay-1093" aria-label="More by Ian Hamilton Finlay" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Ian Hamilton Finlay</a>
Arcadia collaboration with George Oliver
Purchased 1974
Arcadia
Arcadia
classical myths: events, themes
emotions, concepts and ideas
foliage
inscriptions
mythical, religious, fictional
places
plants and flowers
pun
religion and belief
society
symbols and personifications
tank
title of work
transport: land
universal concepts
<p>Arcadia is an area of Greece that is traditionally associated with an unspoilt rural paradise. In this print, Finlay draws an ironic parallel between this idea of a natural paradise and the camouflage patterns on a tank. There is also an echo of the Latin phrase ‘Et in Arcadia Ego’ (‘I too was in Arcadia’), used by the seventeenth-century French artist Nicolas Poussin in a painting of a group of shepherds discovering a tomb. Like Poussin, Finlay reminds us that death is present everywhere, even in paradise.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2008</em></p>
paper print screenprint
3 August 2015 – 1 November 2017
2017-11-01
3 August 2015
2015-08-03
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2015-08-03
Joseph Beuys
Collection based display
Arcadia [collaboration with George Oliver]
image: 355 × 437 mm
Purchased 1974
<p>Arcadia is an area of Greece that is traditionally associated with an unspoilt rural paradise. In this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a>, Finlay draws an ironic parallel between this idea of a natural paradise and the camouflage patterns on a tank. There is also an echo of the Latin phrase ‘Et in Arcadia Ego’ (‘I too was in Arcadia’), used by the seventeenth-century French artist Nicolas Poussin in a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> of a group of shepherds discovering a tomb. Like Poussin, Finlay reminds us that death is present everywhere, even in paradise.</p>

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Arcadia Arcadia classical myths: events, themes emotions, concepts and ideas foliage inscriptions mythical, religious, fictional places plants and flowers pun religion and belief society symbols and personifications tank title of work transport: land universal concepts