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December Song
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Starting From: £200.00
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A cloaked woman walks through a winter landscape flanked by wolves. The whole scene has a gothic, dreamlike quality about it, and evokes images of the darker themes in Grimm’s fairy tales.
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Labyrinth (girl leading a young bull)
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Starting From: £200.00
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An allegory of the contrasts between masculinity and femininity, here represented at their extremities by the young girl and the massive white bull. This theme repeats over and over in Burns’ work, in this case raw masculine power (physical, metaphorical, political?) is tamed and rescued by the civilizing forces of innocence and purity.
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Orpheus
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Starting From: £200.00
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Here the mythological figure of Orpheus, is depicted as a young man walking barefoot at the head of a pack of wolves. Orpheus had the power by means of his music to exert control over “ the birds in the air and the beasts on the earth”. This painting is an allegory of the power of creativity and the arts in our lives, depicting the ability his talents had to control the material world.
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Orpheus Study
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Starting From: £200.00
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One of a series of small studies loosely based on the theme of Orpheus, and the power of his music to exert control over the natural world.
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The Pilgrims
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Starting From: £200.00
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“The pilgrims” is an allegory on the notion of journey, or pilgrimage, and brings together many of the recurring theme in Burns’ work . Each of the pictorial elements used have both a literal and symbolic purpose (the doves for hope, the wolves for ever present threat or danger, and the wilderness of the landscape itself).
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The Pilgrims (girl leading a young bull)
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Starting From: £200.00
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Echoing, on a more intimate scale, the themes explored in “Labyrinth” once again we have the juxtaposition of a small vulnerable child in control of the sheer raw physical energy of the great white bull.
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