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We chose the name Bacchus one night, suitably over a glass of wine. We
thought if we coupled our passion for art with our passion for wine we
would have the perfect life balance.
In Greek mythology the god of wine was known as Dionysus but to the
Romans he was known as Bacchus. The mythical figure represents not only
the power of wine but also its social and beneficial influences.
Bacchus was depicted in an over life-size marble sculpture at the time
of the Italian High Renaissance by Michelangelo in 1497. The sculpture
is housed in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence.
Titian painted the mythological subject Bacchus for Alfonso d’Este
entitled Bacchus and Ariadne (1520 -1523). The National Gallery, London
exhibits this painting. There is also a Leonardesque painting of Bacchus in the Louvre, Paris
based on a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci that is attributed to an
unknown follower, possibly from Leonardo’s workshop. Bacchus also appears as the legendary Saint Bacchus in the third century.
Saint Bacchus and Saint Sergius were Roman soldiers in Caesar
Maximian’s army and were commemorated as martyrs by the Catholic and
Orthodox churches.
Further in our research on Bacchus we discovered that there is a white
grape variety of this name. The Bacchus grape is a cross between a
Sylvaner and a Riesling grape created in Germany by Peter Morio in 1933.
After discovering this diverse background about the name Bacchus we simply had to use it for our online art gallery.
paintings
It has long been the practise of humans to create an image of their experiences, their imaginings or their dreams.
The earliest paintings - cave or rock paintings - have been found
around the world dating back to prehistoric times such as the
significant aboriginal rock paintings discovered in the Kakadu National
Park in the Northern Territory of Australia. Other famous cave
paintings can be found in Europe, mainly in France and Spain. Some of
these paintings are around 32,000 years old!
The desire for humankind to paint has lasted through the centuries
enriching our culture and leaving an important legacy for future
generations to contemplate and admire.
prints
Artists have used a
variety of methods over the years to produce prints of their artworks.
The traditional types of printing methods include lithography, etching,
woodcut, linocut and screen-printing.
With the advent of the digital
world artists now have the ability to produce highly accurate
renditions of their artworks as Giclee prints. A Giclee fine art print
is a print produced from a digital source using high quality ink-jet
printing. This term was created by the French printmaker Jack Duganne
during the 1990s. The advantage of the Giclee printing method is that
it can produce archival prints with such accurate colour and resolution
as to make the print almost undetectable from the original.
photography
Photography as an art form
has undergone the most radical of changes due to its reliance on
technology, from the early Daguerreotype images of the 1820s to the
current digital revolution and the Giclee print.
A Giclee fine art print is a print produced from a digital source using
high quality ink-jet printing. This term was created by the French
printmaker Jack Duganne during the 1990s.
The advantage of the Giclee printing method is that it can produce
archival prints with such accurate colour and resolution as to make the
print almost undetectable from the original.
Limited edition photographic artworks by Peter Bastaja are produced as Giclee prints.
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