The large horizontal painting shows two figures floating in a dark brown space as if lying down. The figure in the foreground has his right arm around the other’s waist, while the other rests her left leg on the former’s head. The one in the foreground is probably Adam, the man, and the other is Eve, the woman. A branch extends from Eve’s genitals, connecting to a pair of rhombuses in the background, with various other shapes and figures around and behind them. Perhaps it is the mystery of a new world being born from the meeting anéd reconciliation of two opposing things? The artist, Wifredo Lam, was born in Cuba. He had a Chinese father and an African mother, and he worked in Spain, Cuba, and France. Lauded by the influential Surrealist André Breton, he painted symbolic paintings rooted in Western alchemy, Eastern Taoism, and Afro-Cuban religion.
(NAKAMURA Naoaki)
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The large horizontal painting shows two figures floating in a dark brown space as if lying down. The figure in the foreground has his right arm around the other’s waist, while the other rests her left leg on the former’s head. The one in the foreground is probably Adam, the man, and the other is Eve, the woman. A branch extends from Eve’s genitals, connecting to a pair of rhombuses in the background, with various other shapes and figures around and behind them. Perhaps it is the mystery of a new world being born from the meeting anéd reconciliation of two opposing things? The artist, Wifredo Lam, was born in Cuba. He had a Chinese father and an African mother, and he worked in Spain, Cuba, and France. Lauded by the influential Surrealist André Breton, he painted symbolic paintings rooted in Western alchemy, Eastern Taoism, and Afro-Cuban religion.
(NAKAMURA Naoaki)