04 Feb 2013
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed, Paul Gauguin
When Nature Is Mother and Partner, Not Indigenous Slave and/or Harlot The Eve of your civilized conception makes you, makes almost all of us misogynists; [but] that ancient Eve, who frightens you in my studio, may one day smile at you less bitterly… She can logically remain nude before my eyes. From Gauguin’s reply to […]
01 Jan 2013
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Jacob Epstein, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed, Paul Gauguin
Two Representations of Crucifixion – Gauguin’s (Critical of Pop-Perception of Crucifixion), and Epstein’s (Where Tragedy Outweighs Dogma) “The yellow color links Christ to the landscape… The agricultural cycle is seen as a parallel to the religious cycle of Christian life – birth, life, death, and rebirth in Heaven. It also follows more specifically the Passion […]
10 Dec 2012
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed, Paul Gauguin
The Unconscious of Religious Believers (From Obedience to God, to Challenging Him, and to Feeling Love for Him) I have just painted a religious picture, very badly done but it interested me and I like it. I wanted to give it to the Church of Pont Aven. Naturally, they don’t want it. The group of […]