THE RINO’s PERIOD
From the Epic of Creation ENUMA ELISH and artist Fatuhi’s imagination, the War paintings and sculptures were created.
“When
in the height heaven was not named, and the earth beneath did not yet bear a
name, came the Rhinoceros!”
In artist
Amer’s mind, Tiamat (the personification of chaos in the Babylonian Genesis) is
not a dragon but a kind of an enormous evil Rhinoceros!
Also
in his mind, when the military is led by a tyrant, it is like mixing an uncontrolled
power and ultimate stupidity. The result is a recipe for the absence of
freedom, horror, and gruesome death!
It
doesn’t take a rocket scantest to figure out that, when mingling such elements the
ignition of war becomes inevitable.
The
80s of Amer were all about fighting fire with fire and fighting the war with art.
In the end, the war died and the artwork was long-lived!
Subject: Tiamat's Cattle
Technique:
Acrylic on Canvas
Measurements:
100 x 70 Cm | 39.3 x 27.5 Inches
Date:
1989
Price:
$35,000
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