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Sometimes I wish to be able
to travel by time-machine and - invisible to others - take a peek
at all sort of different cultures. Then I would love to visit these artists
who often were visionaries and showed in their work already glimpses of
great innovations to come. I most certainly would become a regular attendant
of Klimt's studio.
“ All art is erotic”, he
knew.
How close his sense for the erotic came to the source of life and
dead we can taste in his paintings. For this reason I have chosen here the painting ‘Liebe’.
Love. dead, innocence, passion
and betrayal are the great Pluto/ Persephone themes. In the painting
below the transistorizes of the mayor life-phases can be seen as the betrayal
of time. The very same thing which is symbolized in the rising and decline of
the Moon. That’s no co-incidence, because all mythical women of the
Pre-Christian period were Moon goddesses.
Aspects of this myth are visible
in both of the paintings on this page. Persephone as the lovely spring goddess
is seen as Prosperina, the innocent maiden. Also as Persephone the
bride of Pluto/Hades. And we see her old face, known as Hecate. Who was
the severe and wise queen who reigned over the underworld, at her husbands side.
Which part of her is often represent as her witchy face, or faces.
Looking at the second painting
I have the feeling the women are painted half in the down to earth world and half in
the underworld.
It’s like Klimt's is challenging us to find out
which part belong to the under or upper-world.
Die drei Lebensalter 1905
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte
Moderna - Roma
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