The series of four paintings cannot be separated. Please enjoy this lovely work of Jonathan Bowser. Woven into each painting are a myriad of North American totem animals, the power beasts of the American Indians. Look hard enough and you will find buffalo, cougar, wolves, deer, eagles, bears, horses and perhaps a few other surprises.
SPIRIT CALLING
MYSTIC PASSAGE
PHANTOM OF THE FALLS
SHADOW RAPIDS
The above painting, Shadow Rapids, was featured illegally in Zabibah and the King, a love story written by former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein.
In addition to "Shadow Rapids," Saddam Hussein also stole Guinevere and The Awakening for his book.
Oil on canvas.
Series completed: 1997
* Original Oil Painting and Limited Edition Prints Available *
wow Noor,who knew?
ReplyDeleteSaddam Hussein writing love stories?
ReplyDeleteI have an idea that would be one very compelling read, for any one of a million reasons. If only to giggle at the erotic passages......
He was a secular Muslim so it would be interesting for sure...
According to Wikipedia:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabibah_and_the_King
The plot is a love story about a powerful ruler of medieval Iraq and a beautiful commoner girl named Zabibah.
Zabibah's husband is a cruel and unloving man who rapes her. The book is set in 7th or 8th century Tikrit, Hussein's home town.
Although the book is on the surface a romance novel, it is (and was intended to be read as) an allegory.
The hero is Hussein and Zabibah represents the Iraqi people. The vicious husband is the United States and his rape of Zabibah represents the U.S. invasion of Iraq at the end of the
Gulf War.