" and when her lips are pressed to mine, I am made drunk and need not wine " Painting

Love. Man and woman have proclaimed and promised and recounted and expounded upon their love for each other in every language, in every culture, for thousands upon thousands upon thousands more of years. Found on fragments of papyrus in ancient Egypt is one such poem describing the passion and the power when two lovers kiss. The man writes: Finally I will drink life from your lips and wake up from this everlasting sleep. The wisdom of the earth in a kiss and everything else in your eyes. I kiss her before everyone that they all may see my love. And when her lips are pressed to mine, I am made drunk and need not wine. And she responds: His kisses on my lips, my breast, my hair … Come! Come! Come! And kiss me when I die. For life, compelling life, is in thy breath, and at that kiss, though in the tomb I lie, I will arise and break the bands of Death.* More than thirty centuries have now passed since these particular lovers kissed. A kiss. The kiss. Thirty centuries ago. Today. The kiss has not changed. The anticipation, the pending climax of lips upon lips, tongue upon tongue, is captured in this original oil painting, “and when her lips are pressed to mine, I am made drunk and need not wine”. M.G. AshenBrenner, a self-taught painter living near the shores of a rural lake in British Columbia, Canada (home of the 2010 Winter Olympics) is proud to present on Saatchi Art this piece from her original oil painting collection – 50 Shades. 50 Shades. It is one entire collection. In one colour. Black. Literally. 50 Shades. M.G. AshenBrenner’s skilled creation of dimension and of depth. Of blending. Of shading. Of merging. Of mingling. Toying light upon dark. From black to white with 50 shades of gray in between. Ignited with a flush of scarlet. It intensifies. The nude. The sensuous. The tempting. Bold raven black foundations expertly blended into 50 different shades, charged with hot crimson flashes, capture the beauty and sexuality of the human form. M.G. AshenBrenner’s brush strokes successfully force the black ebony pigments to birth depth and dimension through blending and shading, through light upon dark. Grounded in black. Backgrounded in gold, silver and copper leaf which when caught and reflected by the lights of the day, creates in the eyes of the voyeur, movement, magical, sensual movement. It is 50 Shades. Marrying ebony and colour in a masterful creation of sensuality and intimacy, it is truly the trilogy of today. “and when her lips are pressed to mine, I am made drunk and need not wine” is but one piece from this 50 Shades collection. Please contact the artist, M.G. AshenBrenner, directly at www.art.vpweb.ca for information on the other pieces of this collection.   “In our life there is a single colour, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the colour of love.” Marc Chagall * Thank you to themagentahornet.com for your faithful collecting of ancient love poetry.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 24 H x 1 D in

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