Dr. Farid Fadel
Egypt
Tel. 2362-5030 (Studio)/ 018-670-5551
(Mobile)
Artist's Statement
The Child Enthroned
The original inspiration of this painting was a
little girl on a donkey in Saqqara. Her serious yet
innocent expression puts her in full command as she
conducts the white animal back to the field. Something
about her was quite reminiscent of “King Tut”, the child
king. While working on a preliminary drawing, her stick
was transformed into a royal crook and I put a Pharonic
flail in her other hand. The rural background was no
longer in harmony so I carefully stuck gold-leaf over
most of it, except where the two beams of light frame a
golden pyramid alluding to afterlife and infinity. The
bottom part of the painting shows the top part of the
donkey’s head, where his ears are mirror-imaged. This
particular detail has been read by some people as a
white dove!
Many viewers see in it a harmony between the Pharonic,
Christian and Islamic traditions. With such props as the
crook and flail, halo and light beams and veiled Arab
girl, one could read much into this painting. The halo
encircling the child’s head is composed of the two
overlapping circles that form a couple of golden
crescents symbolic of Islam.
Someone went even further as to quote a Bible verse;
“Out of Egypt have I called my son.”
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"The Child Enthroned"
12,000 LE (US$ 2200)
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