Makeshift steel furnaces in rural China during late 1950s “Great Leap Forward” movement. Materials and labors were wasted. Crops abandoned. By some estimate, 30 million died of hunger.
Orestes on Flickr.
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Orestes
Oil on Canvas
14” x 11”
Completed in 2012
Inventory # 4108.101.2012.03.009
© Matthew Felix Sun
www.matthewfelixsun.com
For more details, please read Finished? Finished? Finished!
Oedipus / 俄狄浦斯 / Ödipus on Flickr.
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Oedipus
Oil on Canvas
14” x 11”
Completed in 2012
Inventory # 4107.101.2012.03.008
© Matthew Felix Sun
www.matthewfelixsun.com
Please read Oil Painting “Oedipus” Completed for further details.
My Favorite Sculptures at Museo Nazionale Romano, Roma
Dying Niobid, Palazzo Massimo, Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome
The Eyes of Electra _ 0284 on Flickr.
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Graphite and Pastel on Paper
© Matthew Felix Sun
www.matthewfelixsun.com
The Eyes of Electra - A New Drawing
Currently, I’m experimenting spatial relationship and geometric patterns in a series of Greek Mythology paintings, including themes on Helen, Paris, Orestes, Electra and Oedipus.
While making the time-consuming oil paintings, I made some drawing studies in various finished degrees. Below is the one for Electra - The Eyes of Electra. I image that her bloodshot eyes are lurking behind every corner of the dark, cold and unfriendly palace of Mycenae, Greece, and plotting the death of her vengeful mother and her lover who had murdered her father.
