Paintures and other art work by Leo Cappèl
Tradition tells us that you could not help but see the beautiful soul of Athena radiating through the surface of Pheidias' famous sculpture. Such was her inner beauty that the memory of it has survived close to twenty five centuries.
Pheidias was an Athenian sculptor, painter and architect. Even his contemporary, the great statesman Pericles accepted him as his equal, and rightly so. Very few artists, right up to the present day, ever reached his sensitivity and understanding.
I am only a very ordinary artist. He showed the soul beyond the surface, I got frustrated and was stopped by the surface. So I had to try and find different ways to show that the surface may be only a mask. Maybe one day I will succeed just a little.
I intend to show my continuing journey to break through the surface by showing one small step at a time every new post.
'NGA' Can I see the person inside the bronze only because I knew her?
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