“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”
~William Butler Yeats
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
its loveliness
increases; it will never pass into nothingness;”
~John Keats
The peacock has had many representations in art since antiquity.
As a symbol its meanings can change from culture to culture. It has represented
luck, immortality, resurrection and royalty as well as vanity and
superficiality. When found in modern design and décor it is often
representative of elegance and beauty. I love the colors and textures that can
be worked into a peacock design as well as the use of flowing curves. This peacock
is another example of cut paper collage. I have used colored paper, Washi paper
and various scraps on lacquered wood to create two peacocks. A third is on its
way. Because it was digitally enhanced I was able to create another version in purple.
“All art is quite useless”
~Oscar Wilde
From the title I thought you were going to have the peacocks in a cemetery or something. :)
ReplyDeleteHehe. Maybe I will, maybe I will. It was more of an association thing. Yeats wrote the poem The Peacock and Yeats makes me think of the Smiths.
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