THYONE

ORIGINAL PAINTING

ACRYLICS ON CANVAS

SIZE: 60 x 50 cm / 24 x 20 inch

YEAR OF ORIGIN: 2022

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FRAMED

SIGNED

STAMPED

incl. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY & 

HANGING GEAR

3.000,00 €

  • 4 kg
  • Available
  • 1 - 2 weeks delivery time

DESCRIPTION

Thyone is the name under which Semele, the lover of Zeus and mother of Dionysus, is accepted among the gods of Olympus.

Dionysus descends into the underworld to save his deceased mother Semele.  So far the Greek mythology.

 

But Thyone is also a moon of Jupiter. And that was the inspiration for this painting.

Thyone was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii in 2001. 

 

I imagined, I would see one of the angels, who came to earth,  like Thyone, the moon, has been discovered. And I always ask myself: How do they look like? Pretty much inspired by the pose of Bruno Ganz in Wings Of Desire, who watches Berlin from above a skyscraper. Combined and inspired by the colorful artworks of the artist duo “PichiAvo” from Spain, Thyone just emerged. Even it took me several days to arrange it exactly like that. Thyone is one of my favorite paintings. 

 

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The origin of the depictions of angels can already be traced back to Judaism. Albrecht Dürer had the angels appear in connection with the apocalypse.  The early modern period popularized the illustration of small child angels with chubby cheeks. 

 

There was also controversy surrounding the nature of angels: scholars such as Thomas Aquinas pondered the question of how and why. 

Aquinas even argued that angels do not have to have bodies. But it is a topic, which is missed out in Modern Art.

Artists like Alfred Schwarzenschild (1920) or Herbert James Draper (1898) painted the “Fallen Icarus”, but as we know that`s Greek mythology.  

 

I would love to say, that it was Caravaggio, who inspired me to create a whole series of guys wearing these massive wings, as I have never seen that in paintings like that before. And a wise man once said: “Create your world! Paint what you like to see in paintings.”