La diosa del pescado
Artist name
Artist year born
1940
Artwork title translation
The Goddess of Fish
Artwork material
oil
pastel
card
pastel
card
Artwork dimensions
height: 36cm
width: 23.5cm
width: 23.5cm
Artwork type (categories)
Painting
Accession method
Donated by Arete 1996
Accession number
5-1996
Label text
During the late 1980s Arete worked on a series of images of gods. Fish play an important part in Guaraní culture and the goddess of fish is here given status similar to that of Arasy, the mother of heaven in another work by Arete in ESCALA. This image is built up in many layers using a mixture of paint and crayon, with touches of gold applied with a brush. The central rectangle is made of a collaged piece of rough-textured hand-made cardboard embossed with the shape of the green fish and red pectoral with zig-zag design.
Valerie Fraser
Valerie Fraser
Last updated date
2008