Balance Print

In this painting I refer to the Renaissance and its praise of the mind. The girls we see are pure balance, love, respect and care. It is a metaphor for caring for nature and its resources, water, flora and fauna. The girls are still small, barely the size of poppies, but their heads are already preoccupied with care for nature and each other. They respect nature as much as they respect themselves. Poppy symbolizes restful sleep and regeneration The fish has become a symbol of birth, immortality, the sea, baptism, freedom, abundance, wisdom and rebirth. It can also be found in the cult of all lunar deities, with particular emphasis on the goddesses of love and fertility: Atargatis, Ishtar, Nina, Isis and Aphrodite. Red in all cultures was associated with the concept of life forces. The Renaissance is the epoch opening modern times in the history of mankind, which has been imprinted incredibly strongly. Another name for this era is a revival, i.e. a return to the best patterns outlined by ancient artists. The Renaissance era is the 15th and 16th centuries, so the times after the rather dark Middle Ages, which directed all human attention to religion and piety, which can be seen in both art and architecture. The Renaissance, on the other hand, is an era of individuality and a shift towards reason.