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Taming
$6000.00 USD
Taming
40 x 30
Oil on Canvas
2020
Based on photography taken by the artist. Sited at the foot of the hill behind the palace of Schönbrunn Garden at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria is the Neptune Fountain. This merman grips the bedrock with his tails as he tames the wild hippocampus (creature depicted with the upper body of a horse and lower body of a fish). The stark lighting highlights their muscular features and emphasizes each others struggle for attempted dominance. The scene takes place on a structure of seashells and warmly colored coral reef as tall treas of seaweed dance in the distance.