Pierros Eyes
Pierros Eyes
78"x72" - complete hanging.
58"x59"- Painting
Pierros Eyes began as an homage to Pierro della Francescas "The Legend of the True Cross", arguably the most beautiful painting I have ever seen. From all the images of pomp and pageantry,, wealth and servitude, battles, death, angels, pious people, every expression imaginable, I reduced all to the eyes- feeling that therein were all the human emotions in the few faces I chose from the fresco. Many many years this painting has evolved, while I worked on others. I never wanted to direct it. Started quite a while before the Pandemic, and thankfully skipped over that in its production ( too many paintings of eyes done then), to the present. when I am able to see the confusion, loss, hopelessness and at places calm of what is going on around me now- 2025. This human display has been going on for a long time.
Coincidentally with its production, I saw my first Buddhist Thangkas at the Rubin Museum in NYC and was enraptured by the draped and revered forms. As mine was a painting of devotion, for the masterful work in a painting impelled out of religious devotion, I decided to envelope it into this traditional devotional form. Devotion is a state of mind and action. It does not belong to one sect or religion. it is not even necessarily religious. It is universal, and so are its forms.
My original painting is done on linen, and started as a drawing of the eyes. Some were then painted- in a way that embedded them into the linen, as the fresco was embedded in the wall. The fresco itself has been restored. Remnants of the outer surface remain. I wanted this painting to have the same feel. The brocade- often used in Thangkas, appears in Pierros painting. The covering is natural linen. The linen throughout reminds me of the softness of earth. This is humanity, after all. There is a reference to Pierros skies in the border of the painting.
78"x72" - complete hanging.
58"x59"- Painting
Pierros Eyes began as an homage to Pierro della Francescas "The Legend of the True Cross", arguably the most beautiful painting I have ever seen. From all the images of pomp and pageantry,, wealth and servitude, battles, death, angels, pious people, every expression imaginable, I reduced all to the eyes- feeling that therein were all the human emotions in the few faces I chose from the fresco. Many many years this painting has evolved, while I worked on others. I never wanted to direct it. Started quite a while before the Pandemic, and thankfully skipped over that in its production ( too many paintings of eyes done then), to the present. when I am able to see the confusion, loss, hopelessness and at places calm of what is going on around me now- 2025. This human display has been going on for a long time.
Coincidentally with its production, I saw my first Buddhist Thangkas at the Rubin Museum in NYC and was enraptured by the draped and revered forms. As mine was a painting of devotion, for the masterful work in a painting impelled out of religious devotion, I decided to envelope it into this traditional devotional form. Devotion is a state of mind and action. It does not belong to one sect or religion. it is not even necessarily religious. It is universal, and so are its forms.
My original painting is done on linen, and started as a drawing of the eyes. Some were then painted- in a way that embedded them into the linen, as the fresco was embedded in the wall. The fresco itself has been restored. Remnants of the outer surface remain. I wanted this painting to have the same feel. The brocade- often used in Thangkas, appears in Pierros painting. The covering is natural linen. The linen throughout reminds me of the softness of earth. This is humanity, after all. There is a reference to Pierros skies in the border of the painting.