Ave Fénix

Serie: Out of Series

Technique: Oil on canvas

Size: 40 x 50 cm

Year: 2007

The Phoenix is a huge bird engulfed in flames and orange-red plumage, like fire.

It is a magical and fabulous being that has been portrayed in various mythologies.
It is believed that it was the only animal in Eden that resisted temptation, which made it an eternal being.

This animal symbolizes practically the same thing for different cultures: immortality and resurrection.

A Jewish tradition states that the chol was the only animal in Eden that resisted temptation and preserved eternal life.

The Egyptians modified this story a bit and gave this bird the name Phoenix, a word that refers to its red color, considering it a fabulous animal, a kind of demigod.

According to tradition, the Phoenix, represented the sun that dies at night and is reborn in the morning, for this reason this bird was consumed by the action of its own fire every 500 years, and a new and young Phoenix rose from its ashes. .

This myth spread widely among the Greeks, who gave it the name Phoenicoperus, which means red wings, an appellation that spread throughout Roman Europe.

During the Roman Empire the first Christians, influenced by the Hellenic cults, made this unique creature a living symbol of immortality and resurrection.

Another symbolism given to the Phoenix is of hope, as it represents the hope that must never die in man.

This painting shows a different image of the Phoenix Bird from the traditional one, a magical moment that combines two opposites: water and fire, united in the reflections of precious crystals, offered by an ethereal spirit.