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Passionate Longing for Dialogue (1): Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
I am starting a new series on my blog which will consist of conversations regarding books, films and potentially other soulful topics of interest. I am calling the series “Passionate Longing for Dialogue,” which is a quote from Martin Buber’s … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Dialogue
Tagged anima, archetypes, art, astrology, book, C.G. Jung, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, depth psychology, Haruki Murakami, individuation, interpretation, literature, novel, review, symbolism, symbols
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The Erotic Watery Dreamland of Henri Rousseau
“In 1910, the year of his death, Rousseau gave the world his last dream, his extraordinary painting Le Rȇve. In a moonlit jungle clearing, a naked woman lies on a brown velvet-covered couch. In attendance are she-lions, birds of paradise, … Continue reading
Haunting Paintings: “Wind from the Sea” by Andrew Wyeth
I saw this painting today and became transfixed by it. The wind has brought the smell of the sea and the birds on the old and frail lace curtain have momentarily caught wind in their wings. I felt nostalgia, melancholia, … Continue reading
Posted in Painting
Tagged Andrew Wyeth, archetypes, art, “Christina’s World”, “Wind from the Sea”, Iris, James Hillman, painting, pothos, symbolism, symbols, Zephyrus
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Swann’s Dream
“Sometimes, too, just as Eve was created from a rib of Adam, so a woman would come into existence while I was sleeping, conceived from some strain in the position of my limbs. Formed by the appetite that I was … Continue reading
Posted in Quotations
Tagged anima, art, dream, Dreaming, Karl Briullov, literature, Marcel Proust
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The Art of Resurrection
Today my thoughts were directed to the phenomenon of Greek “abaton”: “Also called a mundus or earth-womb, the abaton was a real pit, standard equipment in a pagan temple. Those who entered it to ‘incubate,’ or to sleep overnight in … Continue reading
Posted in Painting
Tagged abaton, art, Blake, Bruegel, Christ, Christianity, Ciry, Easter, Gay, incubation, painting, rebirth, Rembrandt, resurrection, rising from the dead, Rubens
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The Flowers
Goddess Flora “The Flowers” by Stéphane Mallarmé (translated by Henry Weinfield) “From golden showers of the ancient skies, On the first day, and the eternal snow of stars, You once unfastened giant calyxes For the young earth still innocent … Continue reading
The Art of Sight
Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, “Allegory of Sight” “We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things,” wrote Henri Amiel in his journal. The psyche presents itself most directly through images. The world … Continue reading
Posted in Painting
Tagged archetypes, art, image, imagery, images, John Berger, looking, Saramago “Blindness”, seeing, symbolism, symbols, the sense of sight, visibility
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Botticelli’s “Mystic Nativity”
Sandro Boticelli, Mystic Nativity This beautiful painting has been one of my favourites for many years. I was always touched by the beautiful twelve angels dancing in a circle at the top, the three angels gracing the roof and the … Continue reading
Posted in Painting
Tagged art, Botticelli, Christmas, Mystic Nativity, nativity, painting, symbolism, symbols
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The Five most important lessons my art teacher shared with me . . .
Originally posted on StoryDoors:
My First Painting 8″x10″ Oil on canvas board, 1954 Heads up – this is a 2100 word posting (longer than my average). My editor suggested breaking it into five short postings, but I couldn’t figure how…
