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Philhelm,PHILHELM-M117 - MINOAN  LION - 2009
M117 - MINOAN LION - 2009

Painting Acrylic
Size: 50 x 50 cm - 19,6 x 19,6 inches
1500 USD

Description: MINOAN / Surprising as it may seem, it is indeed a magnificent lion of the island of Crete, and this, in a recurrent iconography of Minoan gem engraving. Indeed, about 4000 years ago, the vision of beings and things were not only different, but had a symbolic sacred totally escapes us today. The fact that their writing (the Linear A) has not yet been deciphered it certainly helps, as regards the archaic protopalatiale period pre palace.











 
 


Artist Information:
Name   : PHILHELM Philhelm
Location: STRASBOURG  
  France


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PHILHELM Philhelm

Biography
In actual fact, I want to tell you without misrepresentation, the whole story of Philhelm, which begins in Alsace (It was still a Germanic country and will become French only in 1678!) in the castle of Lichtenberg, on April 23rd 1616, when the seven-year-old Balthasar Helmlinger, loses the Monogram of his eponymy descendant. This ordinary but nevertheless very serious incident in the distant past will set in motion the artistic calling of one of his descendants, ten generations later! This contemporary painter, born in Strasbourg in 1943, has only exhibited his work twice in his life (1999 and 2001) and only at the "International Biennial Event of Contemporary Art of Florence" which awarded him in 1999 the Prize of the City of Florence. So that the ordinary people be completely disorientated, so that it will let the story of the past enter him torpidly, by going back the furthermost possible or else it will never pierce the heart of his paintings, to seek there the secret causes of things.
 
Statement
Philhelm declines the colors in a correspondence with the images and original writings to a small history of the past, in wich his monogram was always present as an archetype. This revival for a few years, he has tried to reveal it because the Gods came one day to its meeting ! They deigned to present him their messengers like a hero accompanied with their sphinges : Let them forgive him, if he dares to quote them in the enjoyement of his heart, even if he put no bad shame to ask them for grace. If he tries to make reappear by its legends, some bits of a lost knowledge, and really immortal and sacred, he owes it only with work of fort many archaeologists and historians. He makes no vanity of his work. If he had his whole life, believe not produce anything good and beautiful, he feels no less real joy and deep taste that he recognizes and admires beautiful and great at others, had they been Etruscan, Cretan, Assyrian or Sumerian ?
 
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