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From my Lovers of Zeus collection "Danae" Painting
Canada
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 24 W x 36 H x 1 D in
Ships in a Box
About The Artwork
An ancient King, fearing for his life, twice imprisons his very own daughter. Thus begins the life and story of Danae. An ancient oracle tells King Acrisius that he is fated to be killed by his daughter Danae’s future son. His future grandson. In a desperate move to preserve his kingdom and his life, King Acrisius has the young and still without child Danae locked into a bronze underground chamber. Locked shut in a prison. No way in. No way out. But Zeus, the King of all Gods, the God of the Sky, the Overseer of the Universe, the All-Powerful, had previously been smitten with Danae’s beauty. Homer, in his Iliad, quotes Zeus as saying, “Never before has love for any goddess or woman so melted about the heart inside me, broken it to submission, as now …”. Zeus found a way. He transformed himself and seduced his Danae in a shower of gold. A golden shower that streamed down, from the top of the chamber, down, down into her fertile womb. In time she bore a son. Zeus’ son. Perseus. Not willing to directly kill his own baby grandson, the one fated to in fact kill him, King Acrisius imprisons them both in a wooden chest that he has tossed into the sea for the gods to decide to save or to not. Zeus, still smitten with love, orders his brother Poseidon to calm the seas and mother and son survive. Of course they survive. This is a story of love and in Danae and its companion painting also exhibited here on Saatchi Art, M.G. AshenBrenner captures that golden shower of love. Up close. From afar. The passion, the intimacy, the innocence of a young girl, enchanted, lost in the love, lost in the power of a God in love. And as for our story? The oracle did not lie. Years upon years later, an aged King Acrisius happens to be attending an athletic contest. Danae’s son Perseus happens to be competing that day. Legend differs on whether Perseus threw a discus or a javelin in the competition. For this story, it does not matter which. The object veered from its target. It struck the King in the head. Happenstance perhaps? No. For it was the oracle of truth. Like ancient love, it was fated to be. Danae is but one original oil painting in this Lovers of Zeus collection. Please contact the artist, M.G. AshenBrenner, directly at www.art.vpweb.ca for information on the other pieces of this collection.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:24 W x 36 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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BIOGRAPHY STATEMENT Woman. Oppressed. Victimized. Enslaved. Circumcised. Sold. Chattel. Shockingly, these are the words for how a woman is described in different parts of our world in 2015. Female. Empowered. Dominant. Passion. Beauty. Intimacy. These are but some of the words one might use to describe the oil paintings of M.G. AshenBrenner. This self-taught artist, living near the shores of a rural lake in British Columbia, Canada (home of the 2010 Winter Olympics) is proud to present pieces from her two original collections – 50 Shades and Lovers of Zeus – on Saatchi Art – after the collections’ successful premiere at Art! Vancouver 2015. These two collections, though separated by countless centuries, are joined together through a marriage of ebony and colour in a masterful contrast of sensuality and intimacy from both today and the ancient worlds. 50 Shades is the trilogy of today. Bold raven black foundations blended into 50 different shades, charged with flashes of scarlet red, capture the beauty and sexuality of the human form. In contrast, but in unity, Lovers of Zeus is ancient antiquity. The pieces of this collection are powerful, they impose, they dominate, as did this unrivalled King of all Greek Gods. M.G. AshenBrenner combines a lifetime studying the traditional painting techniques of the masters with the contemporary ease of 2015. A calling from deep inside of her draws M.G. AshenBrenner to explore with her brush the female subject captured in the shadows of the day and of the night and of the dawn and of the dusk. The female. Inspired from the darker works of Rembrandt, but from today. Not passive. Powerful. Sensual. In control. Beautiful. In the 2015 movie release, Woman in Gold, Helen Mirren retells the story of Maria Altmann‘s decade long struggle to right the wrongful taking of her family’s Gustav Klimt painting. As did Klimt in his use of gold leaf, gold, silver and copper leaf are incorporated into M.G. AshenBrenner’s canvases, the oils are brushed and layered over top, and as the light of the room changes with the hours of the day, from dawn to dusk to candle light and then to dawn again, movement, depth and dimension are skillfully created. In 50 Shades, her brush strokes successfully force the black ebony pigments to birth depth and dimension through blending and shading, through light upon dark.
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