Original artwork description:

Composition here is loosely inspired by El Greco's "Los desposorios de la Virgen" that I've had around while living in Bucharest for some time (the work is in the collection of the national art museum there). I've felt fascinated by it from the start and kept returning regularly, spending long hours with it as a kind of meditation - finding a space free from the urban noise.
And clearly as an echo of those meditations one day this work has appeared on the canvas in my studio - I haven't consciously planned it in any way - however the composition, the forms where there in my inner eye and I could just paint it without even realising.
It's a reinterpretation naturaly and much transformed as you can see - there wouldn't be a point of just repainting the masterpiece. This is rather my inner subconscious dialog with what the forms and the scene meant to me.
In place of 3 figures (There is a church official in Greco's work between the couple) I painted the 2 on their own, and well, more relevantly still the figures -originally just a young noble couple- here became supernatural and very otherworldly. There is the mesmerizing feeling I perceive in their connection - a very timeless bond, oddly eerie yet in a strangest way fragile and emotional.
Somehow it's hard to put it in words very well and I think this is always the most amazing thing about visual art that images can evoke meanings wider and more subtle than language. So I leave the description at this and let you stay with the image itself...

Oil on streched, primed canvas, signed on the back, the painting comes framed in a matching wooden edge frame and ready to hang

Materials used:

oil

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