PAINTINGS IN PICTURE AND WORD

Lost Cultural Phenomenon

Title: Lost Cultural Phenomenon Size: 99 cm x  130 cm Artist / Location / Date: C. Hebell, Berlin 2010 Material Painting / Frame: Oil on canvas

Description:

This is a reminder of a lost cultural phenomenon. Vanitas in an archaeological variation. The birds of the zoological world regain territory. Nature against sin or what it is called. The comeback of the peacock is a reminder of the transitoriness of human effort. Ephemerality might come again which presently is more or less forgotten. All sorts of peacocks would then strut in front of establishments of human culture such as football stadiums or operas and multinational companies. Not long ago establishments of the lost phenomenon could be identified at all… Continue reading