Title: Punica Malum
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 78×170 cm
Title: Profanum
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 60×45 cm
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Posted by Angela Ferreira on October 28th, 2007
Title: Punica Malum
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 78×170 cm
Title: Profanum
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 60×45 cm
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Angela,
Your women are evolving. They are fabulous.
I love the lion in its green wreath.
Angela,
I somehow have had the idea that eyes for you are a symbol of the vision of the artist, and here’s another painting with eyes closed, as in your last post. Are these paintings showing more internal mindscapes? In any case, I’ve also become more aware of how your color schemes often link the person with other elements in the picture.
Angela,
For a long time, your trees had been bare. Now they are green!
The trees are now green and the women are bare, hahahahahaha (laughing madly)
Angela, I can hear you very clearly way over here.
Angela,
Why the difference of the two trees in ‘Profanum’?
Interesting use of religious imagery.
Birgit I really don’t like explaining details about my pictures… it is up to the expectactors to decide for themselves and its more about what means to them individually than what I am portraiting…
Remember my quote: “The subconscious reflects on my paintings about life at the moment, my fears, my desires, my hidden thoughts… I get surprised with the outcome sometimes, it strikes me and it is beyond my explanation!”
Tree that is interesting… where do you see the religious imagery?
In the first painting you have what looks like a pomegranate. There’s the mythological symbolism, but it was sometimes used in works depicting Adam & Eve as it was/is believed to be the true fruit from the tree of knowledge.
The white flowers remind me of the use of various flowers, like lilies, in Renaissance paintings to symbolize Mary’s purity.
The building in the second painting reminds me of the use of walled off gardens, courtyards, cathedrals, etc. in Renaissance works as yet another symbol for Mary…her womb, her purity, etc.
The moon in the center of the top painting can be seen as feminine symbolism (my personal preference) but it also reminds me of (again) Renaissance and earlier works that depicted God as a figure in the clouds, dead center in the sky, looking out over everything.