by Eric Jung

Artwork Description

Is it all Pointless

150.0 x 120.0 cm

After the Ingmar Bergman film "The 7th Seal" The scene with the chess game between Death and the knight Antonius Block, just back after a crusade to the Holy Land, had been on my mind since youth. I worked as an camera assistant in my youth and wanted to be a film director but life took me in another direction. My interpretation is more hopeful, with the Eurasian Finch, a symbol of resurrection, showing that death never wins. I put myself in the place of the knight dressed in Samurai clothes. Block: No man can live with death knowing everything's nothingness. Death: Most people reflect neither on death nor nothingness.

Artwork Details

Medium: Painting Acrylic

Genre: Figurative