Original artwork description:
One of my favourite paintings in London's National Gallery is Titian's 'Bacchus and Ariadne'. Ariadne is desolate, having been deserted by her lover Theseus, but Bacchus has turned up, in a carriage pulled by leopards, all overflowing cups of wine and more, offering her immortality in the stars if she elopes with him. Tempting offer. But when I think of it at a distance, I think of Ariadne's blue dress, with white shirt and red sash, and those leopards (or are they cheetahs?) pulling the carriage of drunken revellers. This is my more intimate, contemporary take on it.
Materials used:
Highest quality artists' oil paint on heavy Italian linen canvas.
Tags:
#interior #wine #mythology #furBacchus and Ariadne (2013)
Oil painting
by Andrew McNeile Jones
10 Artist Reviews
£1,490 Sold
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 94 x 54 x 5cm (framed)
- Framed and ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Still life
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Original artwork description
One of my favourite paintings in London's National Gallery is Titian's 'Bacchus and Ariadne'. Ariadne is desolate, having been deserted by her lover Theseus, but Bacchus has turned up, in a carriage pulled by leopards, all overflowing cups of wine and more, offering her immortality in the stars if she elopes with him. Tempting offer. But when I think of it at a distance, I think of Ariadne's blue dress, with white shirt and red sash, and those leopards (or are they cheetahs?) pulling the carriage of drunken revellers. This is my more intimate, contemporary take on it.
Materials used:
Highest quality artists' oil paint on heavy Italian linen canvas.
Tags:
#interior #wine #mythology #furReturns and refunds
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This artwork is sold by Andrew McNeile Jones from United Kingdom
Andrew McNeile Jones
United Kingdom
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Andrew McNeile Jones paints narrative scenes that are washed with sunlight and deep shadows. These are scenes where we sense that maybe a story is happening just out of... Read more
