Gold & Cage by giulband
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Description
Beauty is a gift that looks like gold but in reality can become an oppressive cage.
Comments (103)
rustic01
Great Surrealism in this original and subtle piece. Wonderful analogy with the gold treatment of women being precious but inaccessible through the cages!
Artformz2
Superb and inventive Surrealism here. Bravo. Belle image!
Mulltipass
Amazing Pose and Scene!!!
mauk
Excellent!!!!
ia-du-lin
beautiful composition
junge1
Beautifully composed!
defactor
True! Nice work!
smuci
Amazing!!!!
UteBigSmile
AMAZING PIECE OF ART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Deane
Powerful concept with a great illustration to match your prose!
anahata.c
This image reminds me of Michelangelo's 'Hell', from the Cappella Sistina...in the way you've composed the human figures on your 'page'. Also in the different facial expressions.(I.e., some are in agony, some are in pain, some are lost and lonely, some are searching...) You have a lot of expression in this image. And the women are all in 'gold' (as you say in your description): And it's a 'rough' gold, like gold that's been carved by the sculptor's knife. The women are in relaxed poses, but they look deeply pained or lost. You express your message beautifully.
I also like your treatment of hair. And the complex postures you create. And how some of the women are covering their bodies with their hands---but they don't fully succeed, because their sickness is not concealable. They can't cover it up.
They sit on a grayish blue ground (a little depressing, in other words), in front of skeletons-of-buildings. Frames. Mere 'outlines'. They look like high rises, only without any stone, bricks, windows: just skeletons. It's a striking image, because it seems to say that beauty is "skin deep," like those skeletons; but, also, that those architectural skeletons are the women's 'cages'. Very revealing---because, if the women removed the skeletons, they'd be free. But the women seem unable to do that...
Behind them, infinity---in the form of a vast ocean and big sky. So close yet so far...I mean: The women, trapped in their cages, are only a few feet from the ocean's expanse, but they can't get 'near' it. Like the people trapped in Bunuel's "Exterminating Angel," they can escape, but they don't know how. (All they have to do is move those metal frames, but they can't.) Maybe that's why the sky is so overcast and 'purple'. It reflects the melancholy and loss of the women.
And you have apples on the ground, too: Only these apples are made of the same metal, it seems, as the metal skeletons. It's almost as if those apples could become real fruit, if the women left this place. But, as long as they stay 'caged', the fruit will remain skeletal.
Another brilliantly rendered image from you. And again---despite the painful message---your visual work is beautiful.
dondec
Really out there... playfully surreal
sossy
right because the gift of beauty will pass by fast! stunning and splendid interpretation 😃