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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil, Collage on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 31.5x31.5in
About this artwork
In the Occitan tradition, along rivers and navigable rivers, especially in the 12th and 13th centuries, many legends of "Drac" are told, including one of the most famous and the Tarasque at Tarascon sur le Rhône. In general, the places presented at the time specific dangers of floods, rapids... which endangered the flat-bottomed boats which were used for transport or the residents who went about their business very close to the course of the river.…
. In French the closest translation would be "dragon" except that here no fire but peril of water.
Didier Ventabren
France
Credentials
- Group shows participant
- Works on commission
« The story of an image becomes independent from the one from which it was designed; the artist must balance individual interpretation and history with an exterior regard. »
Didier Ventabren is a passionate French painter whose works have been exhibited across France and Spain. Primarily influenced by the Mediterranean, as well as a range of artists from Velázquez to Basquiat, his paintings represent an artistic elaboration on cultural, historical and aesthetic fusions.