Sculpture titled "Bastet Cat" by Edwige Col, Original Artwork, Resin

Bastet Cat (2018) Sculpture by Edwige Col

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Original Artwork Sculpture, Resin

Artworks classification

Original Artwork

Original Artwork refers to any work that is considered authentic and not a copy or imitation of the original works of an artist. Original artwork can be any type of painting, sculpture, performance, or other media. There are many types of original media. Mixed media includes oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings. For workshop paintings that bear evidence of master craftsmanship, this attribution must be further qualified. While they may be less valuable for different reasons, reproductions and copies have had a tremendous impact on our experience. They reach a greater audience than originals and act as a tonic against commodification. Original Artwork could also refer to the first work, which is always preceding all others. It could also refer to a prototype or a model from which other works can be made. Each work bears great similarities to the original.
Dimensions Height 11.8in, Width 3.2in / 0.30 kg
Fit for outdoor? No, This artwork can not be displayed outdoor
Categories Outsider Art Cat

This work pays homage to the cat which was one of the many animals whose attributes were worshiped in ancient Egypt. It was notably associated with the symbol of protection. First of all avatar of the god Re as the slayer of the serpent Apopis, he will experience the peak of his influence as the incarnation of the goddess Bastet.
Bastet is the Egyptian goddess of the joy of the home, the warmth of the sun and motherhood with feline features whose religious center was in the city of Bubastis (Egypt) .Bastet is one of the most discreet goddesses in the pantheon Egyptian, and is never represented, except in his temple at Bubastis, which, according to Herodotus, would have been, in his time, the most beautiful temple in the country, with the most faithful. You can still visit the remains of the temple dedicated to him at Tell Basta (Bubastis in Greek, and Per Bast in Egyptian, "The house of Bastet").
Initially a local deity of the town of Bubastis, the cult of Bastet gradually spread throughout the country. Venerated since the 6th Dynasty, under the reign of Pepi II, it is imagined as the counterpart of Hathor of Dendera.
The annual festivals of the city of Bubastis, in honor of the goddess Bastet, were highly anticipated events in Egypt. Herodotus makes a colorful description of it that was long held to be an invention of the historian, until modern archaeologists discovered evidence of the existence of these memorable festivals. Around the Late Epoch, the Bastet feast was one of the most popular in the Egyptian calendar. On this occasion, the city of Bubastis (80 km north-east of Cairo) could only be reached by waterways.
Daughter of the sun god Ra, Bastet is, however, sometimes considered the daughter of Amun. She is a double-faced goddess: in her cat-headed or cat-headed form, she is the benevolent protector of humanity, also the musician goddess of joy and the goddess of childbirth. She is sometimes represented as smiling. She is also famous for her terrible anger. On the other hand, in the guise of a lioness-headed goddess, she then identified with the formidable goddess of war, Sekhmet.
The alluring, sacred cat-headed goddess, protector of women and children, holds the magical power that stimulates love and "carnal energy." An asset that earned him a special cult from the Egyptians.
Bastet is a goddess with antagonistic characters, gentle and cruel, she is as attractive as she is dangerous. Bastet is also the symbol of femininity, the protector of the home and the goddess of motherhood. But still inside her, the feline slumbers, and this is how Bastet fights against the serpent Apophis charged with thwarting the course of the solar star. She often carries a sistrum in her hand.
According to some traditions, Bastet is the wife of Atum and she gave birth to the lion Miysis (Mihos in Greek). According to a tomb in the Valley of the Queens where she carries knives to protect the king's son, she also gave birth to and breastfed Pharaoh, of whom she would be the patron goddess.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Resin

Sculpture technique using a polymer product (natural, artificial or synthetic) to make a sculpture.

Outsider Art

Invented by Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) in 1945, the idea is to create works with primitive graphics that take no academic reference into account. He will also advise to "draw like a child" and encourage self-taught artists.

Technic Sculpture

Sculpture is an artistic activity which consists of designing and producing shapes in volume, in relief, either in the round (statuary), in high relief, in low relief, by modeling, by direct carving, by welding or assembly. The term sculpture also designates the object resulting from this activity.

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Edwige Col

France

Edwige Col is a French "Singul'artist" born in the center-west of Hexagon. She lives in France and is well known for her very singular art, which is not part of any known trend. His passion for colors and the underground aura and skateboarding pop culture goes back to his teenage days. His inspiration comes from the lifestyle that accompanies. She has always expressed the freedom to live, the spontaneous expression and even a kind of rebellion. It is in her life, returning from a trip to the American continent that she is more and more involved in the game of pop art and street art. She is inspired by Andy Wahrol and Jean Michel Basquiat and always of the Californian youth who spend his days in the sun surfing, skateboarding in bikini and dancing on punk music in the evening. It is in the cultural mixing and countercultures that it draws its inspiration. Always in search of the most fundamental freedom, she explores in each of its limits the limits between the visible and the invisible. It slides from one to the other as the urban slider does on the concrete. She shares her values of daring, but also of playfulness in each of her works. His genesis is his own art, which always surprises us even where not to assist him.
The work of Edwige Col is visible on his site and in Europe, he was the subject of solo exhibition at the gallery LEOG which is sedentary and itinerant. It is published in many journals and is present in many collectors.