ICARUS. Acrylic mixed media on canvas. Height: 20", width: 16".
Inspired by the Greek myth of Daedalus who made wings of feathers and wax to escape from King Minos in Crete with his son Icarus. Despite his father’s warnings, Icarus flew too close to the sun and his wings melted and he fell into the sea and died. The morale is obvious. —- In my version, which does not punish his ambition and exuberance, Icarus is an inventor, like his father, he tests and finds that by adding tree resin to the wax (=encaustic), the wings withstand the sun’s rays and he soars on the updraft of onshore winds, like the seabirds around him.
Materials: Gesso, sand, cardboard, palm tree bark, rocks, shells, acrylic paint.
Inspired by the Greek myth of Daedalus who made wings of feathers and wax to escape from King Minos in Crete with his son Icarus. Despite his father’s warnings, Icarus flew too close to the sun and his wings melted and he fell into the sea and died. The morale is obvious. —- In my version, which does not punish his ambition and exuberance, Icarus is an inventor, like his father, he tests and finds that by adding tree resin to the wax (=encaustic), the wings withstand the sun’s rays and he soars on the updraft of onshore winds, like the seabirds around him.
Materials: Gesso, sand, cardboard, palm tree bark, rocks, shells, acrylic paint.
Inspired by the Greek myth of Daedalus who made wings of feathers and wax to escape from King Minos in Crete with his son Icarus. Despite his father’s warnings, Icarus flew too close to the sun and his wings melted and he fell into the sea and died. The morale is obvious. —- In my version, which does not punish his ambition and exuberance, Icarus is an inventor, like his father, he tests and finds that by adding tree resin to the wax (=encaustic), the wings withstand the sun’s rays and he soars on the updraft of onshore winds, like the seabirds around him.
Materials: Gesso, sand, cardboard, palm tree bark, rocks, shells, acrylic paint.