The Shoshone Myths

The Collection of paintings and illustrations inspired by Soshone Myths and Legends

The Orion's belt (2015)

Oil on canvas, 80 x 50 cm

for sale in the "El Zapote" Gallery in Mérida, Yucatán

The Circle Dance (2016)

Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm

420 USD (8.550,- MX)

The Dialogue (2016)

Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm

420 USD (8.550,- MX)

The Pleiades (2016)

Oil on canvas, 50 x 80 cm

420 USD (8.550,- MX)

The Mother of the nations (2015)

Oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm

for sale in the "El Zapote" Gallery in Mérida, Yucatán

The Twilight (2016)

Acrilic painting on carboard 34,5 x 27

SOLD

The Mother of the nations (2014)

Tempera on cardboard 20 x 27 cm

200 USD (3.835,- MX)

The Circle Dance (2012)

Tempera and chalk on cardboard 19 x 31,5 cm

SOLD

The Shoshone Narrator (2012)

Tempera and chalk on cardboard 17 x 27,5 cm

180 USD (3.665,- MX)

Praying Coyote (2012)

Tempera and chalk on cardboard 15,5 x 26,5 cm

SOLD

The Indian Guard (2013)

Tempera on cardboard 16 x 23 cm

150 USD (3.050,- MX)

The Flood (2014)

Tempera on cardboard 16 x 23 cm

SOLD

The Origin of the People (2012)

Tempera and chalk on cardboard 33,5 x 23,5 cm

225 USD (4.315,- MX)

The Pleiades (2012)

Tempera and chalk on cardboard 16 x 23 cm

SOLD

The canoeing Warrior (2012)

Tempera on cardboard 22,5 x 14,5 cm

120 USD (2.440,- MX)

The collection of black and white illustrations (2012)

Ink on paper

SOLD

Copyright © Markéta Loman Vogelová, All rights reserved.

INSPIRED BY SHOSHONE NATIVE AMERICAN MYTHS

My first step in creating these paintings was to enter a selective call from Argo, a Czech publisher house seeking a Design / illustrator for a book about Shoshone's Myths. My submission was not selected but the subject matter inspired me to continue to explore this theme.The first small black and white and 2 colors pieces, are the samples I submitted following the publisher’s criteria and technical parameters. The rejection of my design gave me the freedom to use more colors and techniques. The big incentive for the style of expression I chose to use was the North Americans rock drawings and petroglyphs, which are basically found in all native art. This expression allows us the liberty to discard the already ingrained convention in the modern artist of the 19th century who adhered to the accepted styles.

Shoshone Myths were the first American legends I have ever read. The Native Americans tales are quite different from their European counterparts. Coming from Europe, where I was born and raised, made it quite hard to understand them. But it was a challenge to get closer to the culture of the continent, which became my new home. I was reading and rereading the fables, thinking about the meaning and finally I realized, that they are not fairy tales telling stories. They are full of symbols and analogies. The Shoshone nation, transmitted their narrative heritage for hundred years. They understood, that the “word” is not perfect and can’t express the complete reality. Their “stories” are “pictures”, metaphorical, allegorical. In the same tenor as the North Americans rock drawings and petroglyphs that I have studied, in particular the fascinating Coso Range rock drawings and Great Basin prehistoric rock Art.
Their legends are allegorical images of the environmental observation showing us their perception of the world and the life priorities so different from the Europeans which have affected thinking in our modern world. For us, with our present values, it is not easy for us to understand them but they are the gateway to the ancient’s periods when people lived in harmony with the nature and relating to animals on the same footing as themselves. We have a lot to learn from them.

This topic beckons me. I’m planning to return to study more about this continent, its culture, history and art heritage, which I just touched on as a means of artistic expression.

More about my illustrations and the graphic design concept of the Shoshone Myths and Legends book you can find on: http://marketaloman.blogspot.mx