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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 36 W x 48 H x 1 D in
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The myth of Persephone inspired this painting. I started it in November 2020 and left it as a charcoal/acrylic sketch. A month ago I revisited the story of Persphone and I realized that the painting had to be finished, also accordingly to timing, (we entered into spring). Persephone is Demeter 's daughter and while she is picking flowers in a moor the God of the Underworld, Hades, is ruptured by her beauty and her innocence. He captured her by swallowing her into the depths of the earth down into his kingdom. Hermes convinced Hades to leave Persephone free to rejoin the God's and her mother, who is furious for the loss of her daughter and plagued the earth with storms and floods (which corresponds to the winder time). Hades agreed to free Persephone but he tricked her before she left by having her eat some pomegranate seeds (the legend says that whoever eats anything from the Underworld will forever be attached to it). When Persephone rejoins her mother, she told her she ate pomegranate seeds. Hermes intermediates between the furious Demeter and Hades and it is decided that Persephone will spend one third of the year in the Underworld and be the Queen of the Underworld and the rest of the time with her mother and the other Gods. This artwork catches the time when Persephone is about to leave the Underworld for the blooming of Spring.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
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Size:36 W x 48 H x 1 D in
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As an artist I like to experiment with different mediums and to explore both abstraction and representation of figures. My abstract drawings and paintings emerge spontaneously mostly, creating bridges between physical and metaphysical worlds, between what I see in physical reality and what I am feeling coming from subtle bodies. My creative process fluctuates between subconscious flow of images, dreamlike states and structured execution. There's a tango between what I let free to flow and what I consciously choose to represent and render. My intention is to let the observer shape his/her own dialogue with the artwork and experience it with the highest degree of freedom. I want to offer an experience, an occasion to connect with one's inner world. In my works I want to honor and remind of the magic and the mystery that surrounds us and hides in plain sight in the most simple things. The characters and beings that populate some of my drawings and paintings stem from dreamlike states. Metaphorically, they represent an invitation to embrace the unknown, the uncertainty. Watching the BBC documentary 'Turning the Art World Inside Out' profoundly impacted my reasons to paint, my practice, my core-drive to create. I am very inspired by the life and works created by Picasso, Jean Michiel Basquiat, Cy Twombly, Sue Williams, Marc Chagall, Francis Bacon, Alberto Giacometti, Otto Marseus van Schriek, Rex Van Minnen along with uncountable contemporary artists and unknown artists that I have been discovered online or in all possible places I visited. Some of my recurrent themes are the conflict/integration of opposites, paradoxes, nature beauty and diversity, representation of the human body with distortions who are generated by feelings, memories, physical sensations. Year 2020 has propelled my message around how to transmute fear, pain, loss through the power of art, heart, beauty way. #pain2power is the constant thread that I have found in the history and in the making of art, as from the deepest wounds of the individual and the collective sprout the brightest gifts and expressions and as an augmented-beauty is the antidote to a society that fuels fear and duality. Art has always been and it is now more than ever the best reminder of what being human truly means. My interview on ArtistCloseup published online on November 22nd, 2021: https://www.artistcloseup.com/blog/interview-elisa-rossi
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