Dark Angel

Dark Angel is a 2011 acrylic on canvas by Walt Viviers, a large, ambitious figurative work that ranks among the most striking of his earlier paintings. The composition depicts a winged figure in a posture of collapse or grief: massive dark wings spread above a bowed form set against a desert landscape of sweeping sienna and warm gold. The wings are rendered in loose, energetic strokes that contrast with the stillness of the figure below, their scale giving the work a monumental quality. Drawing on archetypal imagery of the fallen angel, beauty, exile, the weight of wings that can no longer lift, the painting handles familiar symbolism with directness and restraint. Enquire for acquisition details.