SAVED Painting

In this from the ANGELS AND DEMONS series, I continue my homage to the Masters…Painters of the dramatic and ecstatic, Caravaggio, Raphael, Da Vinci, and in this case, Tiepolo. I choose and isolate details from their larger compositions, decontextualizing their subjects and freeing them of their time and circumstance. In doing they blossom anew in the imagination of the modern viewer. This piece is unusual in that it can hang horizontally, as shown, or vertically. In it's horizontal orientation, the negative space accentuates the sweeping in of the angel, the sense of flight and weightlessness. Turned 90 degrees clockwise and gravity takes hold...the sense of falling is acute and the urgency and the drama of the rescue heightened. It is painted in casein, an ancient paint comprised of pigment, water, and milk or soy protein applied using large soft boar bristle brushes on sized muslin which I prefer over canvas for it's tighter weave and finer thread. I've developed a technique creating a softness of effect and visual depth without thickness of paint, so the painting rolls for shipping and storage without chipping or cracking.