"Lorsque parut l'aube aux doigts de rose..."

[Marina Dieul]

Hello,
I wish I could have more time participating to the Forum, but...
( I also wish I could have more time to paint, and more time with my children and... well, let's do what we can when we can .)

Here is " Lorsque parut l'aube aux doigts de rose..."
36" x 48", oil.

[Thomasin Dewhurst]

Lovely, excellent work, Marina. You are really sweeping ahead with your ideas and their execution! Tremendous. Thanks for taking the time to post it.

[David Draime]

Marina,

What a delicious painting! I really love the composition. The arrangement of the three little figures is perfect, I think. A contemporary painting - obviously, but one that (for me, at least) hearkens back to Bouguereau's sublime compositions - particularly the poses. What a great vision you have!

David

[Marina Dieul]

Thanks, Thomasin and David !
I wanted to try a bigger composition with 3 figures and well... it was challenging ! Once I found the arrangement of the figures, the rest followed without too much problems.
I'm glad you like it !

[Alexandra Tyng]

"When the dawn seemed to the fingers (petals?) of the rose???????"
Help, please translate, Marina! I don't know French and I'm curious to know the title.

I love this composition. You've painted the three little figures with your usual combination of intensity, wisdom and cherubic innocence. The idea of using a baby or small child as a vehicle for imparting ideas and archetypes is brilliant. I also like the way you have conveyed a feeling (for me) of time confusion. Is that Greek lettering on the torn-off posters? That and the graffiti on the cement seem to imply a time in the distant future. There is a bleakness to the world as if a great civilization has been wiped out, but there is a new possibility of beginning.

Even if you have only a limited time to work, it seems that you are producing a string of masterpieces.

[Richard Jones]

Marina,

This is really beautiful. I love the composition and the figures. Excellent.

[Enzie Shahmiri]

Ah what a treat to see this new post! Beautiful as always and I especially like the nifty trompe d'oleil with your signature on it.

[Michele Rushworth]

Once again you knock my socks off! I'm running out of superlatives to describe your work, Marina. This one is my favorite so far.

[Marina Dieul]

Sharon and Michele : thanks for your kind comments !

I didn't know Maxfield Parrish, his work worth a look ! I also sometimes bild some cardboard structures to see the light and the shadows .

[Allan Rahbek]

Marina, I like it too.
Poetry is the flowering of language and often brings inspiration to painters.
Homer talked about "The vineblue sea around Crete", a title I used for a watercolor of the tempestuous sea at the south of Crete.