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Italian Postwar & Contemporary painter Guido Baldessari
Cosmic Conjunctions, 2013
Anita Berber was a German dancer, actress, and writer who and the subject of this Otto Dix painting. She lived during the time of the Weimar Republic.
Otto Dix ~ The Dancer Anita Berber, 1925
Henry Fuseli ~ The Shepherd’s Dream, 1786
(black chalk, brush, ink and brown ink, sanguine, white chalk and wash over pencil on paper)
The Eleusinian Mysteries, one of the most acclaimed religious festivals in the Greek world honored Demeter, goddess of the harvest and her daughter, Persephone, queen of the underworld. The myth is allegorical of agricultural renewal, from life to death and back.
Persephone
French painter Paul Sérusier, known for his innovative use of flat shapes of color. Sérusier was notably the founder of the Les Nabis, a group of French artists which included Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, and Édouard Vuillard.
The Eleusinian Mysteries (1888)
Wassily Kandinsky ~ Composition VI, 1913
As an “expression of inner necessity” Composition VI (Deluge) was intended to evoke cataclysm. Kandinsky, focusing on the sound of the word like a mantra, defined correspondences between colors and forms to the psychological and spiritual