Persephone - Sowing The Seeds Of Life

Artist George Anastasiadis

Greece

Persephone - Sowing The Seeds Of Life - a Paint by George Anastasiadis

CATEGORY

Paint

DIMENSIONS

70.00x50.00

YEAR

2022

TECHNIQUE

SAKURA Pigma Micron Fineliners (Royal Talens) on Fabiano paper.

PRICE

Not for sale

ABOUT THE WORK

Material: ink,sakura,fabiano paper

Persephone was titled Kore (Core) (the Maiden) as the goddess of spring's bounty. Once upon a time when she was... Read More

Persephone was titled Kore (Core) (the Maiden) as the goddess of spring's bounty. Once upon a time when she was playing in a flowery meadow with her Nymph companions, Kore was seized by Haides and carried off to the underworld as his bride. Her mother Demeter despaired at her dissappearance and searched for her the throughout the world accompanied by the goddess Hekate (Hecate) bearing torches. When she learned that Zeus had conspired in her daughter's abduction she was furious, and refused to let the earth fruit until Persephone was returned. Zeus consented, but because the girl had tasted of the food of Haides--a handful of pomegranate seeds--she was forced to forever spend a part of the year with her husband in the underworld. Her annual return to the earth in spring was marked by the flowering of the meadows and the sudden growth of the new grain. Her return to the underworld in winter, conversely, saw the dying down of plants and the halting of growth.

In other myths, Persephone appears exclusively as the queen of the underworld, receiving the likes of Herakles and Orpheus at her court.

Persephone was usually depicted as a young goddess holding sheafs of grain and a flaming torch. Sometimes she was shown in the company of her mother Demeter, and the hero Triptolemos, the teacher of agriculture. At other times she appears enthroned beside Haides.

I chose "black" color, as a symbol of Hades. Everywhere in my drawing there is the symbol of the "seed", as a basic ingredient and the beginning of New Life. Symbolic shapes that evoke associatively to the Primordial. My work is full of symbolism and symbols.

Beyond "black" there is plenty of "white" in harmonious coexistence, as the symbol of Life, a symbol of Light.

Right in the center is allegorically depicted the grain of wheat by incisions and infinite cross sections.

Each viewer sees what he wants to see.

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