The artwork, titled “Lion Afternoon,” is a landscape piece by the artist Jacek Yerka, who is associated with the Surrealism art movement.
In the artwork, Yerka masterfully combines elements of serenity and fantasy. The scene is set under a lush canopy of fruit-bearing trees arranged to form a natural arbour. Beneath this green canopy, a meticulously set table, adorned with an elaborate bouquet of flowers and laden with an assortment of foods, invites the viewer into an idyllic yet surreal picnic. A majestic lion, appearing calm and content, reclines under the table, juxtaposing the familiar scene of a peaceful picnic with an element of the wild. In the background, the landscape extends into a golden expanse of wheat fields under a sky adorned with billowing clouds. This seamless blend of the fantastical and the realistic is a testament to Yerka’s vivid imagination and his surrealistic approach to landscape art, evoking a sense of wonder and contemplation in the viewer.
