Battle for Universal Harmony

Year completed: 1970's
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size (inches): 53.5 x 130.5
Size (cm): 133.75 x 326.25

Status: Sold

Observations: An omnibus view of Anishanawbe cosmic mythology - everything is connected. This a huge painting, more than 10 feet (3m) in length. Interestingly, Norval reverses the horizon, so that the sky is at the bottom and earth at the top, and he centres the entire painting around the circular form in the midpoint, representing the eastern symbol of yin and yang, an understanding shared by the Anishanawbe concept of 'world being', the balance of opposites - negative and positive, male and female - in an eternally recurring cycle. The images swirl about the earth form and become a living cosmos.