Ivan Chan Asian male nude angel original painting art

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Tumbling for You

Size/32" x 12" x 0.5" (16" x 12" each)  Medium/Oil on canvas  Date/2008

Original Finger Painting by Ivan Chan

Story/Passion may bring pleasure in its pursuit or quenching, but the Latin derivation from the word pati, meaning "to suffer and endure," gives a hint at the costs of deep and often blinding love.

Bill Moyers, the journalist, and Joseph Campbell, the comparative mythologist, discussed in The Power of Myth an old Persian story about Satan being God's greatest lover. So powerful was his devotion that when God created Man and told the angels to serve the new creature, Satan refused.

The punishment for his disobedience was eternal exile. There's really no need for a lake of fire when Hell is simply the absence of the Beloved.

Like John Milton's Paradise Lost or Gregory Maguire's Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (upon which the musical Wicked was based), a change in perspective twists perception and offers insight--it inspires us to look twice at the ordinary and accepted, and it ultimately develops our compassion, or abiltity to "suffer with," when we can imagine ourselves in the shoes of our so-called enemies.

This 32" x 12" diptych (two-part painting) captures the moment of an angel's fall--a casualty of war from one side or the other--his eyes focusing on a golden Heaven as he plummets farther from it. Wings of light and fiery color, influenced by Islamic art, spread in submission even while his deep blue halo brings in the earthly night.

"Tumbling for You" is ready to hang without a frame due to the classic black 0.5" sides.

Authenticity/All work is guaranteed authentic. Signature (Chinese and English) and stamp on the back.

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