The Beginning Of New Era Tempera Figurative Painting

Set against a merciless red field, the architecture reads like a stage for a fable—arched voids and patterned friezes compressing space into a ceremonial box where innocence and spectacle collide. Below, the soft, rounded bodies of the children move in a circular choreography of play and vulnerability, while above, the goat and the drooping fish hover like emblems of appetite and sacrifice, their stillness sharpening the scene’s unease. A lantern offered by the perched monkey becomes a small, precarious promise of guidance, suggesting that illumination here is not comfort but scrutiny—an ethical light cast over ritual, desire, and the fragility of the human condition. The work’s flat planes and meticulous ornamentation turn narrative into symbol, making the viewer read the image like a dream whose logic is decorative, precise, and quietly disturbing.