 | Madonna with Pop Cherubim
| Series: | After Venice | | Size: | 9x12 | | Medium: | Oil on linen | One of my favorite paintings in Venice was Madonna with Red Cherubim, by Bellini. The intense red and blues were fantastic, making the painting look almost surreal, despite being painted somewhere around 1485. The colors in my version are more intense than the photo, and the photos of the Bellini online are even worse. You really must travel to Venice to appreciate it. My painting is obviously a bit modernized. My cherubim are pop cherubim, although equally as happy, and the madonna is wearing a burqa. But I'm pretty sure it is the madonna under there. You can think about the message, and decide whether I am deeply spiritual or a clear infidel. Either interpretation is valid. |