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Andrée Bars
"La Pacha Mama", Ochre Golden Yellow Beige Symboliste Original Oil Painting

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£780.45
€875
CA$1,436.01
A$1,597.16
CHF 833.99
MX$19,435.73
NOK 10,651.29
SEK 9,989.03
DKK 6,661.07
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“La Pacha Mama” is an original oil painting on linen by Andrée Bars. Bathed in warm ochre, golden yellow, and soft beige tones, set against a starless blue background, this intimate composition is both a visual offering and a symbolic homage to Pacha Mama, the revered Earth Mother of Andean cosmology. At its heart, a flower made of dried corn husks gently blooms, cradling an ear of maize — the sacred food and spiritual lifeline of many ancient civilizations. Surrounding the corn are folded paper petals, forming a cocoon-like embrace that evokes both protection and ritual. Embedded within the composition, pre-Columbian gold medallions conjure ancestral wisdom and a timeless reverence for the cycles of life and nourishment. The deep, star-speckled night sky behind them transforms the scene into a cosmic altar — a place where earth and cosmos converge. An emerald origami bird emerges at the edge of the composition, like a silent messenger between worlds — nature and spirit, past and future. “La Pacha Mama” is more than a still life; it is a symbolic meditation on origins, abundance, and the sacred feminine force that sustains all creation. Andrée Bars is a French painter. Having been strictly trained for 4 years by the American hyper-realist painter Mr. Ted Seth Jacobs, who himself inherited 19th century masters’ skills from his own professor, Andrée Bars learned the profession of painting in its purest tradition. She still applies these ancient masters’ technics on her art. Each painting contains at least three layers of oil paint. Andrée Bars applies her skills to hyper-realism on surrealist ideas. Although her paintings copy the reality to the extreme, they can not be qualified in a simple term of hyperrealism nor of trompe-l’oeil style, her artworks distinguish themselves for a kind of mysterious sweetness they convey to the spectator.
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    Height: 15.75 in (40 cm)Width: 15.75 in (40 cm)Depth: 1.19 in (3 cm)
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    Clermont-Ferrand, FR
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    1stDibs: LU1041116031052

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