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Et In Arcadia Ego (2021) Original Oil Painting by Nicolas Maureau
130 x 97 x 2cm (unframed) / 130 x 97cm (actual image size)
£2,572.2
Original artwork description
A single word carved in stone that stops a whole pastoral world in its tracks: Et in Arcadia Ego takes up the legend of the shepherds of Arcadia, a scene Nicolas Poussin painted twice, where shepherds stumble on a tomb bearing that inscription, I too exist in Arcadia, and understand for the first time that death has always been here with them.
Poussin's versions gave the discovery a whole landscape to unfold in, figures pointing, tracing the letters, working the realization out together in the open air. Maureau strips all of that away. What's left is a single figure and a sober, internal version of the same shock, awareness happening quietly inside a body rather than announced across a group.
Arcadia stops being a place in this version and becomes something closer to a state of mind, one where beauty was never actually separate from the mortality it seemed to promise an escape from.
Materials used:
oil painting
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 130 x 97 x 2cm (unframed) / 130 x 97cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
A single word carved in stone that stops a whole pastoral world in its tracks: Et in Arcadia Ego takes up the legend of the shepherds of Arcadia, a scene Nicolas Poussin painted twice, where shepherds stumble on a tomb bearing that inscription, I too exist in Arcadia, and understand for the first time that death has always been here with them.
Poussin's versions gave the discovery a whole landscape to unfold in, figures pointing, tracing the letters, working the realization out together in the open air. Maureau strips all of that away. What's left is a single figure and a sober, internal version of the same shock, awareness happening quietly inside a body rather than announced across a group.
Arcadia stops being a place in this version and becomes something closer to a state of mind, one where beauty was never actually separate from the mortality it seemed to promise an escape from.
Materials used:
oil painting
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 130 x 97 x 2cm (unframed) / 130 x 97cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
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