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My Understanding of " Missing Butterfly"

I saw a painting in a Gallery, at that time I felt like it, so just photo marked it unknowingly. After I came home, I dropped the photo to my computer and watched it more carefully. Suddenly I feel I love this painting, I have to say something about this painting to share with.

First, let's talk about the name"Missing butterfly". Missing because of lost, so think about it. It composed both by lost and think. Good name.

On the whole painting, there is a naked woman, but the painter didn't show her breast and other things, just the side view of her skin. That influences this painting means to show some pure soul, affection or something, not the lust. The main color is yellow. Nowadays, it's winter in Shanghai, we can imagine there are lots of yellow leaves on the trees,streets, let's say it very suit the season. On the woman's neck there are some yellow leaves in first sight, but after we look more carefully, the yellow leaves just like the woman's wings. We can imagine that she was a butterfly in past, but now she dropped to the earth and became a human but still with broken wings like yellow leaves. We also can tell out from her eyes looking and the butterfly antennae on her hair. The small butterfly in front of she sign she was a butterfly, but now missing it, because of lost, so begin to think. Or can understand that because we lost summer, butterfly lives in summer and become insect in winter, so we can say we lost summer in winter, so we think about summer now, the warm weather, the beautiful views,etc...

 

Since the butterfly became a beautiful woman, she is such pure, such beautiful, such transcendental.  The whole painting's main color is yellow.The woman math the scene so much.  We can imagine that she is the metaphor of the world's winter or autumn. The beautiful world just like the woman,like a fairy. At the bottom there is a small boy, and some fire balloons flying in the sky.  It means the small boy was attracted by the world so much.

But I don't understand why did the painter written" flavor love" at the cover things in front the woman. It's a wonderful and perfect painting, but why did he do that? Try to lead us to understand this is show the love?I think that's a little ridiculous, even I am not a painter. If the painting without these words, this is the perfect painting. I suggest the painter to get rid of the words. I would like to buy it and hang on my hall.  Oh, maybe in future. 

After I summary this painting, it's still very beautiful, the looking,the meaning, both perfect.

 

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