Fascinated by Greek Mythology, I felt spurred to interpret the FALL OF ICARUS , a mixed media executed mostly in watercolour. The palette is reminiscent of heat and sunshine, the two key factors that actually led to the subject's death. I left Icarus himself white in order to express pathos - shock and fear.

His body is elongated especially the torso, one of the thighs and the hands.

In order to escape from King Minos, the prodigious inventor Daedalus built wings for himself and his son Icarus, fashioned from feathers and held together by wax. He warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, as it would melt his wings, and not too close to the sea, as it would dampen them, making it hard to fly. The disobedient Icarus fell to his death after the wax melted. The sea in which he drowned was then named the Icarian Sea.

Keith Balzan

 

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