Unicorn with Bunny, Butterflies and Hummingbirds in the Millefleurs
by Lise Winne
Title
Unicorn with Bunny, Butterflies and Hummingbirds in the Millefleurs
Artist
Lise Winne
Medium
Painting - Drawing, Painting
Description
Please note that the watermark in the lower right will not appear on any ordered prints or products (needed for on-line display only).
Featured is a unicorn sitting on a carpet of flowers with an array of many flowers, weeds, butterflies, a nesting hummingbird and a feeding hummingbird behind him. This piece was inspired by millefleurs tapestries of the Renaissance which more often than not pictured a unicorn that looked half-way between a white goat and a horse. Like the unicorns today, he is also a mythical creature.
In front of him is a young rabbit, not worried in the slightest about this large animal with a sharp horn.
The composition is bursting with colors, particularly pinks, reds and greens.
Some symbolism follows:
* unicorn: purity, innocence, the divine, enlightenment, magic. The unicorn has been known to swoon at the sight of a faire maiden who is pure of heart, and to even fall asleep in her lap, and to be an independent creature of high intelligence. The unicorn could not be captured without being seduced by the beauty of a woman. The unicorn's horn has been known to purify drinking water. The unicorn was described during Renaissance times as an extremely wild woodland animal that could not be tamed and was more or less a lone animal (you don't find much unicorn mating or baby unicorns in the old Renaissance tapestries.
* rabbit: vulnerability, luck, the moon (feminine)
* hummingbirds: joy, playfulness, uplifting, transforming negative energy, swiftness, resiliency.
* millefleurs: abundance, growth, fertility, creativity, freedom from hunger, heightened respect for nature
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August 23rd, 2020
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