Creator of Waters (from the Sargon series)

Mediums: oil, sand, canvas.
Location: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution.

The artist devoted a few of his works to the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian king, Great Sargon. The plot for the painting “Creator of Waters” was the legend about how Sargon came from a simple family of water carriers and helped his father earn a living delivering water to the city. In this series, significant changes in the life of Donati are noticeable. After some time spent in creative searches, the artist developed his own original technique, in which he used quartz sand, creating a special, embossed surface of the canvas. Colors that the master used in his canvases also considerably changed. Donati started using ocher and grey shades close to natural instead of open and bright red, blue and turquoise.