Art
October 25, 2009
September 20, 2009
C.G. Jung's The Red Book is gonna be amazing!
"While Jung considered The Red Book to be his most important work, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation, it is available to scholars and the general public. It is an astonishing example of calligraphy and art on a par withThe Book of Kells and the illuminated manuscripts of William Blake. This publication of The Red Book is a watershed that will cast new light on the making of modern psychology.
212 color illustrations."
awesome!!!! hello!!? He was tripping on inner visions!! (BIGGER SIZE HERE)
August 24, 2009
Bacchanal: The Orgy in Ancient Greek and Roman Inspired Art
This blog was inspired not just by my love of Greek art--but also--I have to come clean here--my obsession with the Southern Vampire Mysteries (aka. the Sookie Stackhouse books) by Charlaine Harris and the HBO TV-show True Blood. In recent episodes (taken from the book the Living Dead in Dallas), there has been a maenad ("maened" for the spelling-challenged) character who throws crazy "nature" orgies with the local townsfolk.
Maenads were the drunken female followers of Dionysus, the god of wine and divine madness. The term "bacchanal," or "bacchanalia," essentially means "divine orgy" and comes from the name Bacchus, the Roman version of Dionysus. So technically the Greek versions of these orgies weren't called bacchanals, but are instead are referred to as the "Dionysian Mysteries".
The Dionysian Mysteries were holy rituals which used various intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques, such as dancing, music, and sex to remove inhibitions and break down artificial social constraints, thus liberating the followers of Dionysus, allowing them to return to a more primitive, natural, and blissful state of consciousness.
So let's visit some bacchanals of yesteryear, shall we? Notice how often Pan, the Goat-God (represented by The Devil card in the tarot), shows up. He loved to hang out with Dionysus and Bacchus (when know by his Roman name "Faunus"). He was quite the life of the party!
RICCI, Sebastiano
c. 1716
Oil on canvas, 84 x 100 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Bacchanal of Putti by NICOLAS POUSSIN
Date :1626
Technique :Oil on canvas, 74 x 84 cm
Location :Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
Bacchanal Before a Statue of Pan by NICOLAS POUSSIN (1594-1665)
Pan copulating with a Goat, from Herculaneum, 1st century B.C.
(from an Ancient Greek krater)
An illustration by Édouard-Henri Avril (21 May 1843 – 1928)
Bacchanal by Auguste Léveque Bacchanalien, 1864- 1921
Marc Chagall's (1887-1985) Bacchanal
Erotic Windchime from Pompei (the city mostly destroyed of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in AD 79). These were common household items! Just had to throw this in as it illustrates how Greeks and Romans had no concept of "obscenity" with reference to erotic art or images of sexual anatomy.
Red-figure cup by the Pedeius Painter.
Late 6th century B.C., Greece.
Detail of a Vase from Stamnos, First century B.C., Greece
Aphrodite, Eros, and Pan from Delos, c. 100 BC
Athens National Archaeological Museum
La-Reine-Bacchanal by Fritz Zuber-Buhler (Swiss, 1822-1896) Originally the Dionysian Mysteries were only for women.
And finally, (perhaps my favorite) a bacchanal by Picasso (1881-1973)
The interesting thing is that orgies were commonly depicted in ancient Greek and Roman art. There are none in medieval art, when Pan become associated with Satan the Devil, but then in the Renaissance, Pan and bacchanals make a big comeback--which continues right up until modern times.
xoxo,
Izabael
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Izabael's Top 25 Mae West Quotes
25. I've been in more laps than a napkin.
24. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
23. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
22. It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.
21. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
20. Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
19. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
18. One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
17. A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
16. A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.
15. A man's kiss is his signature.
14. A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
13. All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
12. Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
11. Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.
10. She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
9. Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
8. Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
7. I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
6. To err is human, but it feels divine.
5. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
4. When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
3. When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
2. Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
1. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
xoxo,
Iza
April 20, 2009
Bukowski as Hierophant
The Hierophant (Trump V. in the tarot) is about expressing deep spiritual truths and teaching them to others. The card also carries the subtext of expressing the sexual desires of the Hierophant himself (Taurus is ruled by Venus after all.)
And then we have Charles Bukowski, whose genius by now I hope needs no espousing, who fits right in there, the man of our time.
If Crowley is the Magus of the new Aeon, then I dub Charles Bukowski its Hierophant.
kisses & bites,
Izabael
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My Kind of Temple: Khajuraho
I often wonder what the world would be like if the more sexual/spiritual cultures dominated more than the violent/puritan type cultures. Imagine if the dominant culture in the modern world was still the Chandelas who created these beautiful temples around 1050 CE at Khajuraho.
Looks innocuous enough from here! But anyone under 18, go run and get your mom or dad for parental supervision!
Spit or swallow? Not sure what's up with the graffiti....
Ohh!!
Wheee!!
Ah, it's like an inverted Dante's inferno...a stairway to sexual heaven!!
Very ahead of their time, these Indians. All the women look like they have silicone implants.
It's good to be the King (and Queen.)
Well, uh. They had me up until this last one. Kind of gives a new meaning to "OMG Ponies!"
xoxo,
Izabael
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Artist: Pablo Lobato
Amazing this guy can portray celebrities so distinctly using just lines and flat shapes!
For more groovy celebrities check out: Pablo Lobato's webpage.
*izabael
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