Description

Title: “Hisbico Vermelho”
Date of completion of the work: 2002
Material: Ceramic
Dimensions: 14 x 14 cm

Artist: Rui Pinto Lopo

Hibiscus is a plant with a flower that stands out not only for its beauty of form, but also for its various virtuous meanings ranging from delicate beauty, to virtue, to femininity, to softness, among others.

Isis was worshiped as a model of the ideal mother and wife, protector of nature and magic, also related to motherhood. The name Hibiscus is known as the “Mime of Venus” and in Greek it means Hibiscus, a reference to the Egyptian goddess Isis, the goddess of fertility. and fertility, and as a goddess of simplicity, protective of the dead and children.

Although all the flowers refer more to femininity, it is even more linked because of its delicate beauty, its softness. And when associated with the color red adds to its symbolism the Love.