Venus in donkey cart - SOLD
Richard Mudariki (b 1985)
Venus in donkey cart - 2013
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 80 cm
Signed and dated bottom right
Sold - 2014
This painting portrays the arrival of an African Venus; the goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility and prosperity. The two eggs in the cart refer to her fertility and to the creation and propagation of life. She arrives relaxed and totally nude, on a cart pulled by a donkey. The males are sure to be attracted to this woman of foreign culture.
In Roman mythology Venus is born of sea foam, and is thought to be yielding and watery – assimilative and benign – in opposition to her active and fiery male counterparts, Vulcan (her husband, God of Fire), and Mars (one of her many lovers, God of War). She tempers the male essence, uniting the opposites of male and female in mutual affection. She is considered essential to the generation and balance of life.
Reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology)