Butterfly Cry
Butterfly Cry Portrait of My Mexican Heroine A1 and A2 Size 170g Silk Paper Print
Butterfly Cry is an original painting by Scottish artist John McDonald. The painting depicts his Mexican Heroine, the beautiful wife of Diego Rivera, and Mexico’s most loved artist.
These large affordable prints of Butterfly Cry are digitals print with a silk finish on 170g paper.
The print includes a printed black mounting area to aid in framing at home. The print area of both sizes is detailed below:
A2 the Butterfly Cry image is 50 x 38.5cm, the outer edge of the paper is 59.5 x 38.6 cm
A1 the Butterfly Cry image is 70.5 x 54.5cm, the outer edge of the paper is 84 x 59.5 cm
Print is shipped in a poster tube.
A2 size £12.00 plus shipping UK £3.60 / Worldwide £5.60
A1 size £20.00 plus shipping UK £5.60 / Worldwide £7.60
Butterfly Cry is the first of the Mexican Heroine series by John McDonald, a body of work exploring human themes of love and loss, suffering and strength, and passion for life. Inspired by Mexico’s most-loved female artist, who is also loved around the world, Butterfly Cry expresses the power of creativity to change suffering or pain into beauty.
Butterfly Cry depicts a creative and imagined portrait of John’s Mexican Heroine, researched through a variety of historical photographs. The beautiful wife of Diego Rivera is depicted in red, yellow and black indigenous Mexican Tehuana costume, with silver earring, red braided headscarf, and red floral headdress, on a turquoise and soft green ground.
This unique and moving portrait embodies the South American symbolism of feminine grief transformed into butterflies: the Mexican Heroine’s tears are represented as colourful butterflies, one for each year of her life. Forty-six butterflies may be easily counted, and the forty-seventh is hidden somewhere else in the portrait.
The pathos, vibrancy, and universal appeal of Butterfly Cry, makes this the leading portrait in John McDonald’s Mexican Heroine series. The artist has a very literal empathy with the beautiful wife of Diego Rivera, through loss and bereavement from self, but most of all in a passion for life that can change tears into butterflies, overcome disability and pain, and that celebrates the indomitable strength of the human spirit.
BUTTERFLY CRY
BROKEN… BROKE
BEAUTIFUL BURDEN
CRY… GOODBYE
LIE, LAY, LAID
COPYRIGHT © by John McDonald. All rights reserved by the artist. Any and all publishing and reproduction rights are retained solely by the artist. This image is not to be re-distributed, copied, imitated or misappropriated without written consent of the artist.