Auction Item
El Canto de la Muerte - Hilary Puglisi
- Item Number
- 52
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Sold
- 360 USD to sa9e026c0
- Number of Bids
- 9 - Bid History
Item Description
Medium: Acrylic/Mixed Media
Artist: Hilary Puglisi
Artist Vision: I was inspired by the Mexican holiday, "El Dia de los Muertos" in which family and friends gather to pray and remember loved ones who have died and to help support their spiritual journey. The art that is associated with this holiday is beautiful and has a folk-art appeal. It typically uses bright colors and skeleton or skull imagery. Often the skeletons are dancing or involved with music. I also have a deep love for nature and trees so I wanted to embrace this aspect as well, utilizing the neck of the cello for the trunk. I tried to depict a rather desolate neutral environment for the living above ground, and then a brightly colored, appealing underworld for the dead. I would like to think our deceased loved ones are enjoying a fiesta wherever they may be.
Item Special Note
Artist Biography: Hilary Puglisi has taught art at Bettendorf High School for the past 17 years. She tells people she teaches computer graphics and multimedia art so she gets her dose of technology, and then she goes to the ceramics studio where she essentially gets to play and sculpt in the mud. She truly feels she has the best of both worlds with the multimedia and the ceramics classes. Outside of school, she has two very active kids, ages 9 and 12, and both are gymnasts so she is typically driving one, if not both, to practices during the week. She has a very patient, amazing husband of 18 years, and together they remodel their Victorian house. She is an animal/ nature lover and as she moves about her house, she typically does so with a cockatiel named Yoshi on her shoulder. Puglisi also loves being active and tries to run daily with her boxer in preparation for summer obstacle course races.
Cello Location:
Books-A-Million
4000 East 53rd Street, Davenport, IA 52807
Donated By:
Sponsorship Available
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