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Original artwork description:
nice colourful mini sculpture in a shape of knot.
The Cutting of the Gordian Knot is an Ancient Greek legend associated with Alexander the Great in Gordium in Phrygia, regarding a complex knot that tied an oxcart. Reputedly, whoever could untie it would be destined to rule all of Asia. In 333 BC Alexander was challenged to untie the knot. Instead of untangling it laboriously as expected, he dramatically cut through it with his sword, thus exercising another form of mental genius. It is thus used as a metaphor for a seemingly intractable problem which is solved by exercising an unexpectedly direct, novel, rule-bending, decisive and simple approach to the problem that removes the perceived constraints.
Materials used:
acrylics on ceramic mini sculpture
Tags:
#patchwork #origami #knots #positive feelings #unique interior #mini sculptures #bright interior #vio valova #interior detail #gordian's knotGordian's Knot (Solving a Problem) (2023)
Sculpture
by Vio Valova
59 Artist Reviews
£125.46
- Sculpture on Other
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 10 x 10 x 11cm / 10 x 10cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Urban and Pop
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
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Original artwork description
nice colourful mini sculpture in a shape of knot.
The Cutting of the Gordian Knot is an Ancient Greek legend associated with Alexander the Great in Gordium in Phrygia, regarding a complex knot that tied an oxcart. Reputedly, whoever could untie it would be destined to rule all of Asia. In 333 BC Alexander was challenged to untie the knot. Instead of untangling it laboriously as expected, he dramatically cut through it with his sword, thus exercising another form of mental genius. It is thus used as a metaphor for a seemingly intractable problem which is solved by exercising an unexpectedly direct, novel, rule-bending, decisive and simple approach to the problem that removes the perceived constraints.
Materials used:
acrylics on ceramic mini sculpture
Tags:
#patchwork #origami #knots #positive feelings #unique interior #mini sculptures #bright interior #vio valova #interior detail #gordian's knot
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Artist Reviews (59)
Vio Valova
Netherlands
About
Hello, thanks for visiting. I'm a Ukrainian artist, designer and photographer temporary (because of the war) located in the Netherlands. Art is my life, my job, my way of thinking... Read more