Artist's description:
"Hoarder of gold
How much of it
Can you take with you?”
The “Conference of the Birds” is a 12th-century Sufi poem by Attar of Nishapur, that is a timeless parabol of the mystical quest for the Truth. It features the hoopoe, a spiritual guide figure, leading the birds on a perilous search for their King, the mythical Simorgh. Each bird in turn makes an excuse for not setting out, until at last they are all ready to take part. In the poem, the owl symbolizes love of wealth.
I have a deep love of birds, and painted this series out of a desire to create some illumination-inspired work, with traditional pigments and materials, and gold accents. Each bird is perched on a rendition of its Arabic name in the “Eastern Kufic” style, which originates in Persia just like the poem. The text accompanying each bird is my own, trying to distil the essence of that particular passage in a form short enough to fit inside the halo.
Materials: oakgall ink, egg tempera with natural pigments*, gold leaf 23.75 ct.
* Pigment list for the whole series: burnt sienna, venetian red, vermilion, lac dye, rose madder, madder red, lead tin yellow, yellow ocher, terre verte, chrysocolla, dioptase, cavansite, azurite, lapis lazuli, eggshell white, realgar.
Materials used:
Oakgall ink, egg tempera and gold leaf 23.75ct
Conference of the Birds: The Owl (2017)
Painting by Joumana Medlej
$452.85
- Painting on Paper
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 10.24 x 11.02 x 0.04 in (unframed) / 7.09 x 7.48 in (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Illustrative
- Subject: Animals and birds
- Artwork description
Artist's description:
"Hoarder of gold
How much of it
Can you take with you?”
The “Conference of the Birds” is a 12th-century Sufi poem by Attar of Nishapur, that is a timeless parabol of the mystical quest for the Truth. It features the hoopoe, a spiritual guide figure, leading the birds on a perilous search for their King, the mythical Simorgh. Each bird in turn makes an excuse for not setting out, until at last they are all ready to take part. In the poem, the owl symbolizes love of wealth.
I have a deep love of birds, and painted this series out of a desire to create some illumination-inspired work, with traditional pigments and materials, and gold accents. Each bird is perched on a rendition of its Arabic name in the “Eastern Kufic” style, which originates in Persia just like the poem. The text accompanying each bird is my own, trying to distil the essence of that particular passage in a form short enough to fit inside the halo.
Materials: oakgall ink, egg tempera with natural pigments*, gold leaf 23.75 ct.
* Pigment list for the whole series: burnt sienna, venetian red, vermilion, lac dye, rose madder, madder red, lead tin yellow, yellow ocher, terre verte, chrysocolla, dioptase, cavansite, azurite, lapis lazuli, eggshell white, realgar.Materials used:
Oakgall ink, egg tempera and gold leaf 23.75ct
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