Picture "Papaver Orientale" (2015)
Picture "Papaver Orientale" (2015)
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Acrylic | Canvas, stretched on stretcher frame | Format 100 x 70 cm (H/W) | signed certificate of authenticity
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Picture "Papaver Orientale" (2015)
Poppy is a plant full of mystery and symbolism. In his "Metamorphoses," Ovid describes the abode of Hypnos (Latin Somnus) as a cave at whose entrance poppies and many other herbs grow, from which Nyx, the goddess of the night, prepares her sleeping draught. The special beauty of the poppy blossom, combined with its strikingly rapid transience, have inspired poets, painters and musicians - not least because of the opium extracted from the poppy capsules. We encounter poppies as symbols of sleep, dream, death, forgetting and pain relief.
