“Nest of Cupids” – the embodiment of kisses, love and sticky passion in the oil layer of paint. This is the canvas of the great Adolf Bugero, written on the eve of the last five years of his life, full loss of loved ones. It is executed in the manner of illusory radiance, which is familiar and favorite for the master, thanks to a very delicate letter and a light palette. There is everything: both a characteristic Bouguer blurred landscape, and enlarged main characters, and the presence of the mythical fairy tale of Rome, and the allegory of human feelings. The recognizable letter of Adolf Bugero is very smooth and weightless.
Despite the fact that the canvas is written with oil, it would seem so dense and greasy pigments, “Nest of Cupids” seems a watercolor – transparent to the fibers of the canvas, fluid and watery. Abundance of whites plays in sunbeams on bodies. At the same time, the skin of the heroes exudes marbling, sometimes porous china. The smoke of the haze in the background and the absence of sharp lines give the weather in the plot a morning cool, fog and damp. Like a girl caught unawares by fussy angels at dawn by the pond. Now about the plot. He is romantic and somewhat sexy.
Trembling baby hands, if angels generally have an age, are drawn to a living warm body. Characteristically, as an object for love, the artist chose the opposite sex to boys – Cupids. This is a young woman, juicy and fresh. Although the same hero could perform and a young man. However, it is not known how chaste was that time, especially the church. While the divine beings are essentially asexual. And so Cupids or, if you want, Cupids, decided to play with the earthly creature in a fussy crowd.
Perhaps Bouguereau gave his canvas a secret meaning of not the only love for all time, but an allegory of easy flirting. The arrow of Cupid, thrown in the heart of the goal, promises love, but what does the game of messengers of love and their kisses mean? Not otherwise, as a slight windy enthusiasm for the person they kissed. But the arrow of the prankster of what comes from the back to the chosen “victim” is the beginning of the most important human emotion – Love! The nest of cupids is a dangerous place to walk, as it turned out.
It is not necessary to perform the morning exercise when small angels with a mass of ammunition frolic. It can happen that the heart will not survive and burn out with an abundance of feelings and surprise, just as the heroine is in the arms of feathered boys.
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