icarus fall Painting

icarus fall-original art by viktor lIn [[Greek mythology]], '''Icarus''' (the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English; {{lang-grc|Ἴκαρος}}, ''Íkaros'', [[Etruscan language|Etruscan]]: ''Vikare''Larissa Bonfante, Judith Swaddling, ''Etruscan Myths'', p. 43) is the son of the master craftsman [[Daedalus]]. The main story told about Icarus is his attempt to escape from [[Crete]] by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. He ignored instructions not to fly too close to the sun, and the melting wax caused him to fall into the sea where he drowned. The myth shares thematic similarities with that of [[Phaëton]]—both are usually taken as tragic examples of [[hubris]] or failed ambition—and is often depicted in art. Today, the [[Hellenic Air Force Academy]] is named after Icarus, who is seen as the mythical pioneer in Greece's attempt to conquer the skies. [[File:Draper Herbert James Mourning for Icarus.jpg|thumb|''[[The Lament for Icarus]]'' by [[Herbert James Draper|H. J. Draper]]]] Icarus's father [[Daedalus]], a talented and remarkable [[Athens|Athenian]] craftsman, built the [[Cretan Labyrinth|Labyrinth]] for [[Minos|King Minos]] of Crete near his palace at [[Knossos]] to imprison the [[Minotaur]], a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the [[Cretan bull]]. Minos imprisoned Daedalus himself in the labyrinth because he gave Minos' daughter, [[Ariadne]], a [[wikt:clew|clew]][[wiktionary:clew|clew]] – a ball of yarn or thread. The etymology of the word "[[wiktionary:clue|clue]]" is a direct reference to this story of the Labyrinth. (or ball of string) in order to help [[Theseus]], the enemy of Minos, to survive the Labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur. Daedalus fashioned two pairs of wings out of wax and feathers for himself and his son. Daedalus tried his wings first, but before taking off from the island, warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea, but to follow his path of flight. Overcome by the giddiness that flying lent him, Icarus soared through the sky curiously, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted the wax. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms, and so Icarus fell into the sea in the area which today bears his name, the [[Icarian Sea]] near [[Icaria]], an island southwest of [[Samos]].{{cite book|first = Robert|last = Graves|authorlink = Robert Graves|year = 1955|title = [[The Greek Myths]]|chapter = 92 – Daedalus and Talus|isbn = 0-14-007602-6}}[[Thomas Bullfinch]] - The Age of Fable Stories of Gods and Heroes [http://www.kundaliniawakeningsystems1.com/downloads/thomas-bulfinchs-mythology-age-of-fable-vols1&2.pdf ''KundaliniAwakeningSystem.com''] & The Internet Classics Archive by Daniel C. Stevenson : Ovid - [http://classics.mit.edu/Ovid/metam.8.eighth.html Metamorphoses - Book VIII ] + Translated by [[Rolfe Humphries]] - [http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/literature/litpacket/metamorphoses.htm KET Distance Learning ] 2012-01-24Translated by [[A. S. Kline]] - [[University of Virginia Library]][http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/trans/Metamorph8.htm#_Toc482327661/ .edu] Retrieved 2005-07-03 Hellenistic writers give [[euhemerism|euhemerising]] variants in which the escape from Crete was actually by boat, provided by Pasiphaë, for which Daedalus invented the first sails, to outstrip Minos' pursuing galleys, and that Icarus fell overboard en route to Sicily and drowned. [[Heracles]] erected a tomb for him.{{cite book|editor = Smith, William|title = A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology}}{{cite book|last = Pinsent|first = J. |year = 1982|title = Greek Mythology|location = New York|publisher = Peter Bedrick Books|isbn = 0-600-55023-0}} azarev(Matisse inspired)

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 18 H x 0.5 D in

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