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RE: 🎨 EYE SCREAM CHERUBIM 👁 🍦
Maybe because the angels are modest and all look alike while the gargoyles want to show off their costumes and guide hands to be painted.
Maybe because the angels are modest and all look alike while the gargoyles want to show off their costumes and guide hands to be painted.
thanks, and yes, I love to paint Cherubims (which are not at all like the little Rococo chubby baby angels), my influence in this regard is my late friend Ernst Fuchs, for a time before his passing was my studio neighbor at the Palais Palffy in Vienna. He had painted a series of these long before I ever picked up a brush. Well, technically, in heavenly hierarchy Cherubims rank far above angels - they are not gargoyles, but rank in the first sphere, just below Seraphims
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_angelology
OK, sorry if I offended with my ignorance some type of supernatural being :) Thank you for sharing.
No offense - I do appreciate comments and discussions such as these. What first stirred my interest already when I was just a boy browsing my grandfathers library was Revelation and also Ezekiel, where you would find descriptions that, in my mind, are well beyond what I seen depicted in art, until I seen the paintings by Ernst Fuchs. But even so, I do not follow the literal to a tee - perhaps I am the only one that does not see Lovecraft's Cthulhu (a hyper-dimensional monster) like an Octopus, but that is another chapter: Cthulhu Monuments.