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⚔️ Gladiator Ancient Roman Warrior Pop Art Modern Painting : The Eye of the Gladiator
📌 Collection: Peace
🎨 Artist: Vincent Bardou
📏 Dimensions: 146 × 89 × 3 cm
🖌 Technique: Aerosol spray, oil paint, pastel
🗓 Year: 2025
🖼 Unique Artwork: Yes – 1/1
📐 Format: Rectangle
🛠 Support: Linen canvas on Dalbe wood frame
🔳 Framing: None
🔒 Finish: Two coats of acrylic varnish for optimal protection
✍️ Signature: Signed bottom right and countersigned on the back
📜 Authenticity: Delivered with artist-signed certificate

⚔️ The Eye of the Gladiator – A Powerful Vision of the Ancient Warrior by Vincent Bardou
With The Eye of the Gladiator, Vincent Bardou delivers an intense, symbolic interpretation of the Roman warrior figure. On this canvas, a gladiator’s face emerges: eyes filled with determination, history, and silence.
This isn’t a battle scene but a frozen moment before conflict. Part of the Peace Collection where war meets inner peace the warrior is no longer a weapon of violence but a bearer of ideals: standing strong, master of self, confronting darkness without losing his humanity.
A subtly worked background, with raw textures and patinated shades, supports this direct gaze.

🎯 Why was this artwork created?
 The Eye of the Gladiator is part of a series exploring strength, resilience, and peace. The gladiator, an ancient hero and martyr of spectacle, becomes a messenger: endurance as wisdom, peace as inner conquest.
Through this work, the artist does not glorify war but celebrates the individual capable of rising above it. His gaze is a window to the soul, a battle within oneself against ego, fear, the past.

🎨 A hybrid creation mastered with technique
 The Eye of the Gladiator showcases meticulous mixed-media work:
  
Oil paint: models facial features with depth and subtle lighting.
  
Aerosol spray: structures the background with texture and embeds street art ethos.
  
Soft and oil pastel: highlights shadows and contrast, giving expressive nuance.
The entire composition is rendered on a linen canvas over a Dalbe wood frame (146 × 89 cm), with two layers of varnish.

🌟 A Unique, Symbolic, and Powerful Work
This piece is original and one-of-a-kind (1/1), signed front and back, delivered with an authenticity certificate signed by Vincent Bardou. A cornerstone of the Peace Collection, it balances visual power, symbolic depth, and contemporary technique. It appeals to history enthusiasts, urban art lovers, and collectors of striking portraits.

📲 Follow the creation process on Instagram
Discover exclusive behind-the-scenes content of the artwork’s making on the artist’s Instagram:
👉 @vincent_bardou