Painting titled "Song of a Lemon gro…" by Lana Frey, Original Artwork, Oil

Song of a Lemon grove (2021) Painting by Lana Frey

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Oil on Canvas

Artworks classification

One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 39.4in, Width 47.2in
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Paintings under $20,000 Fauvism Mythology

In ancient Persia there was once a young poet whose verses captured the hearts and souls of all who listened to them, and soon word of her writings spread from her village to all the surrounding towns, bringing people from all over the empire to come and hear this young girl timidly speak her words. Words that could make the very soul weep of joy, sadness, or a myriad of other intense emotions depending on the themes of her poems.

Unfortunately for her, her skill and her beauty quickly drew the attention of the gods to her, with even the most serious and insensitive of them being at the very least moved when hearing the verses this girl had written.

This drew one particular goddess, who was known among other things for the sweetness of her voice, to simmer with anger and jealousy. Finally, when even old Rashnu, forever judgmental and bitter, uttered under his breath that her poetry was “the most beautiful thing he’d ever heard” she exploded in a fit of rage, and descending from the heavens, selfishly striking down the young poet as she walked among a lemon grove; her favourite place to write her poems.

The goddess, after looking down at the beautiful young girl's body was overwhelmed with a sense of grief and regret.
She uttered two last words to the girl... What those words were is lost to time, but according to legend, these words materialised into two beautiful birds, which now forever watch over the young girls’ spirit.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Oil

Paint consisting of pigments bound with linseed oil or carnations. The traditional technique consists of superimposing layers of paint increasingly rich in oil for a solid and durable hanger.

Fauvism

Born in 1905 in Paris, this movement bring together many artists who shared a radical practice of color. The painting by Henri Matisse (1869-1954), The woman with the hat, noticed at the autumn salon is one of the outstanding works of this movement. Artists like Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), Raoul Dufy (1877-1947) and Georges Braque (1882-1963) mark this movement.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Lana Frey

Czechia

Svetlana Tikhonova, alias Lana Frey, is a contemporary Czech painter. She explores the wide mix of feelings we experience and transforms them into interesting portrait and landscape[...]