Renaissance (2022) Original Oil Painting by Nicoleta Nica

Rebirth is a painting of the Phoenix, the bird that dies in fire and rises from its own ashes, just as the sun sets and returns each day. Here the bird carries the sun with it: a blazing disc, gold at the core and deepening through rust-orange into violet and cobalt, glows behind its dark, bowed head like a halo.
A turquoise wing sweeps diagonally upward, its cool blues set against the heat of the flames. Below, a column of fire and sparks falls toward a bed of blue and green foliage, the point where the old form burns and the new one begins. The background breaks into drifting fragments, like ash in motion or embers waiting to reassemble.
Thick impasto follows the movement of the forms: the strokes spiral through the sun, and raised white lines run through the fire like filaments of light. The result is an image of transformation, moving from darkness toward luminous renewal.

Materials used:

stretched canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Fabric
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 34.06 x 41.93 x 1.97" (framed)
• Framed and ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Animals and birds