Oil painting titled "The Kurdish Warrior" by artist Laura Liberte, 2021
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Oil painting titled "The Kurdish Warrior" by artist Laura Liberte, 2021
Their roots stem from the historical Amazones. "They wore trousers. They smoked pot, covered their skin with tattoos, rode horses, drank a powerful concoction of fermented mare's milk called kumis, and fought as hard as the guys." An interview with Adrienne Mayor, author of The Amazons about Peshmerga women in the NG Magazine literally swept me off my feet. You see -her left breast is cut off as the legend goes- to shoot the bow better. My idea of these heroic women warriors is projected against the backdrop of a splendid fragment of a Bidjar Kurdistan carpet (private collection) and a tiny yellow house in the village symbolizing her own home in the dwelling mountains of Kurdistan.
Today's news from the Middle East and Syria is filled with images of Kurdish Peshmerga women fighting IS.
"I thank Laura Bohne cordially for the idea and her priceless carpets."
Medium: oil and acrylic on canvas
Measurements: 90 cm x 110 cm