Apple from the beginning Painting

This work was made by digitizing my 100x50 cm drawing and then enlarging it to print it on a 200x100 cm canvas, and it was repainted with oil in 3 very thin layers. The image was inspired by the iPhone logo and the concept of this artwork, that it is the same as the apple in the Bible. Just as we accepted the apple in the Garden of Eden with the sake of divine knowledge and fell into earthly existence as a result, we now move into the virtual world by following the same symbol. The first sketch started just as a graphic design for an iPhone Case with Botticelli's Venus (1485-86), as Eve, and Michelangelo's David (1501-1504), as Adam. Both artwork were made in Florence, perhaps the 2 most well -known masterpieces of the Renaissance, but their topics come from 2 foreign roots of European cultural history. Venus is the, Greek-Roman while David is Judeo-Christian. The relationship between the Western man to the supernatural to science and the individual is born from the marriage of these 2 origins, after the Dark Middle Ages, with the Renaissance, which began to re -discover the technical achievements of the antique world and placed the individual in next to of the collective. In my work the human and animal figures, except for the dove, are all astrological symbols. Eve is the virgin and Adam is the serpent bearer (the 13th zodiac sign still used in the Renaissance, also known as Hermes). Libra is the dragon in the Chinese zodiac, which is located in the middle of the picture, the rest of the zodiac signs are in the West, moving from left to right in the picture: Aries, Leo, Taurus, Sagittarius, Gemini, Scorpio, Cancer, Aquarius, Capricorn, Pisces.The plants in the background are placed in a permacultural system that is capable of creating a paradise state in most agricultural areas in a sustainable mode.