At once lyrical and colourful, this large acrylic painting by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak was inspired by Ancient Greek mythology…

Demetra's Sickle

More Works By Angela Letizia Renzi & Richard Tosczak Acrylic on Canvas 2023
51.5 × 71.5 in 130.81 × 181.61 cm
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About Demetra's Sickle

At once lyrical and colourful, this large acrylic painting by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak was inspired by Ancient Greek mythology. Rendered in vivid sea blues, turquoise, white and accented with flashes of cantaloupe, Demetra’s Sickle was named for the Greek Goddess of the harvest. This is one of a series created in collaboration with an Italian painter, literature and linguist expert, Angela Letizia Renzi. According to the Greek myth, Demetra’s daughter Persephone had been kidnapped by Hades and while searching for her, the goddess became frustrated and threw her sickle into the sea. The arched shape of the sickle is said to be the reason for the shape of the city of Trapani in Sicily, Italy. Renzi and Tosczak paint these canvases together and at the same time. Their artistic interaction is important to the works they create.

“The philosophical artistic formation of one and the literary humanistic of the other, are intertwined in a common vocabulary, a visual language of colour, gesture and form.”
Tosczak and Renzi
At once lyrical and colourful, this large acrylic painting by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak was inspired by Ancient Greek mythology… Image 2 At once lyrical and colourful, this large acrylic painting by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak was inspired by Ancient Greek mythology… Image 3 At once lyrical and colourful, this large acrylic painting by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak was inspired by Ancient Greek mythology… Image 4 At once lyrical and colourful, this large acrylic painting by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak was inspired by Ancient Greek mythology… Image 5 At once lyrical and colourful, this large acrylic painting by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak was inspired by Ancient Greek mythology… Image 6 At once lyrical and colourful, this large acrylic painting by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak was inspired by Ancient Greek mythology… Image 7 At once lyrical and colourful, this large acrylic painting by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak was inspired by Ancient Greek mythology… Image 8 At once lyrical and colourful, this large acrylic painting by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak was inspired by Ancient Greek mythology… Image 9 At once lyrical and colourful, this large acrylic painting by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak was inspired by Ancient Greek mythology… Image 10 At once lyrical and colourful, this large acrylic painting by Canadian visual artist Richard Tosczak was inspired by Ancient Greek mythology… Image 11