Posted on March 26, 2025 
by arslohgo
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“D’OR”—Dolores O’Riordan, singer of the Cranberries, is one of my favorite female musicians and the work is part of a short series on “AFFMs” (absolute favorite female musicians). For quite a while there were only two female artists; recently there have been three. I switched the position of the apostrophe in the name abbreviation from after to before the “O,” so the name abbreviation now evokes the French term for “golden.” There are two representations of this musician (see also D’OR II).
The artist’s head merges with the dawning day in the sunset and the rising ground mist in a heath landscape. Twilight and “ruin” were part of her life until her death in 2018. The background of the work is a photograph of a heath landscape near Callantsoog, NL.
[A] The combination of several visual objects against a themed background may evoke an (English) term that is ambiguous in German and thus “calls up a second theme”.
[B] In addition, this combination may result in a new subject or an invented word through an equally pronounced but differently spelled word combination, as well as through a differently pronounced but equally spelled word.
[C] Sometimes it is the title of the work that reveals the background and thematic association of the image.
[D] And in the one or other case it is just a modified photograph.