Daisy M. Doria
Art Appreciation
1301 P11
3/3/20
Bruno Andrade
The well-known artist was based in San Antonio, Texas, in the year 1947. His passion for art was driven by an aesthetic and profound sense of place. His main inspiration for the painting was from nature, and he painted from memory and his interior vision. He was a realist with a refined sense of abstraction, a subtle colorist with a boisterous use of hues, and sophisticated painter inoculated with an amazing of an eccentric visionary. In his quote, he says, ‘I strive to be in touch with the land, particularly the land of Texas coast. I feel nature’s power in the soil, the energy of the trees, the plants, and the flowers. By embracing the earth with my heart as well as my eyes.’ This shows he had so much passion in nature that leads him to draw the painting. The four elements of life expressed his love for the water, air earth, and fire.
Photo gallery
It is believed that the earth is made up of four essential elements; Earth, water, wind, and Fire. These were the powers that were thought to control the universe. Everything in the world has a combination of the four elements. This is perceived in terms of cold, hot, dry, and moist. For instance, a combination of warm and dry resulted in the production of fire, warm and wet resulted in airing, cold and dry gave the earth and cold and wet combined to produce water. Additionally, all four elements combined to create life, but only with the quintessential fifth element, which is the life force. The image in the photo gallery represents the four elements.
Fire
It is believed to be the first element after creation. It is related to transformational and purifying powers. As much as it can give life, it can also destroy life through burning. Spiritually, it symbolizes light, and in the physical plane, it is the sun or flame. It signifies strength, activity creativity, passion, freedom, power, love vision, anger, assertiveness, and dynamism.
Water
This is believed to be the cleansing power. It symbolizes dreaming, healing, flowing, fluidity, purification regeneration stability, strength, change, fertility, devotion, receiving, and unconditional love. Furthermore, it symbolizes death as well as life.
Air
This symbolizes the breath of life and is attributed to the cleansing power. Air represents communication, intelligence, perception, knowledge, learning, thinking, imagination, creativity, harmony, and travel. As much as breath symbolizes life, it can be a cause of worst destruction.
Earth
This symbolizes prosperity, fertility, stability, orderliness, groundedness, sustenance, creativity, physical abundance, nourishment, solidity, dependability security, permanence, intuition, introspection, and wisdom.
It is generally perceived that that earth and water are heavier elements and have a downward direction. Hence, they represent the feminine archetype. These two symbols are related to mother earth. Likewise, the air is above the water and therefore has a natural upward movement. Similarly, the sun stars and heavens are above the air. This makes the elements have a masculine archetype and symbolize the thinking function,