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TITLE:
"Flights of fancy" © Chris Eisenbraun
1983.
ARTIST
NOTES:
 At
first I thought of myself as a fantasy artist. I loved to
read fantasy and sci fi books and would find myself drawing
in this vein. But I knew this wasn't what I wanted to be known
for forever. I remember walking the streets of Frankfurt at
night, asking myself repeatedly what my style was, what was
it that I was trying to say and how was I going to do it????
Many, many years later I realized that I had been doing it
all along but without purpose. Symbolism and surrealism combine
all of my passions: mythology, psychology and a never-ending
search for the meaning underneath it all. Go figure. This
is one of the paintings done before I found my particular
path...
An
inherent symbolism of the piece involves air/intellect/free
spiritedness (the butterfly) pulled from the sky by earth/passion/one
mired in the day-to-day (the leprechaun). Why the three words
per? Go to the symbolism reference part of the site (click
here) and read the article about the three layers to symbols
:)
Symbolistic
details in this section of the page are just clues and hints
for the curious and/or frustrated. These are just a few thoughts,
details for those who like to know behind-the-scenes sort
of details. Don't want to know? Skip past the words and take
the piece on your own terms :)
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