“Chaos at the Heart of Orion”; NASA title of Hubble photograph from Hesiod: Theogony 8th Century BCHail, children of Zeus!… Tell how at the first gods and earth came to be, and rivers, and the boundless sea with its raging swell, and the gleaming stars, and the wide heaven above, and the gods who were…
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. Carl Jung Jupiter Musée du Louvre ceiling fresco Jupiter et Semele Gustave Moreau 1894-95 Oil on canvas (83.8 in × 46.5 in) Musée National Gustave-Moreau (Moreau Museum), Paris From Encyclopedia Mythica [This was the…
Charon carries souls across the River Styx Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko 1861 Russian Museum, St. Petersburg From the Encyclopedia Brittanica: Charon, in Greek mythology, the son of Erebus and Nyx (Night), whose duty it was to ferry over the Rivers Styx and Acheron those souls of the deceased who had received the rites of burial. In…
The Birth of Venus (Cupid’s Mom) L’Amour au Papillon Le Captif (The Prisoner) Amour a l’affut (“Love on the Look-out”) L’Amour s’envole (“Love Takes Flight”) Oil on canvas, 1901 66 7/8 x 44 inches Frye Art Museum, Seattle
The Watermelons Oil on Canvas, 1957 Museum Dolores Olmedo Patiño It is not, of course, a coincidence that Diego Rivera painted watermelons, since he was passionately connected to Frida Kahlo. Mr. Rivera died of heart failure — the used up watermelon in the front of the painting seems quite appropriately symbolic. Among other things, heart…
Actress Kathleen Chalfant has starred on Broadway, in plays including Wit and Angels in America. She was in a different role recently at the Rubin Museum of Art, discussing the theories of psychoanalyst Carl Jung as part of the Museum’s Red Book Dialogues. Jungian analyst Margaret Klenck joined Chalfant on stage, to discuss an image…