Tag Archives: Aaron Ross

LEGENDS ON THE WILD SIDE

Of all creatures on earth, the rhinoceros appears at first glance the least likely to be associated with the art of love. The great horn that decorates his nose, and from which his name is derived, is not generally considered … Continue reading

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RHINOS, PICADORS & MINOTAURS

”Picasso had never been a political artist, and as Jung noted, his images seemed increasingly to withdraw from objective reality and primarily reflected some inner psychic state that he was trying to work out on canvas. He made no war-related … Continue reading

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THE PAINTERS AND THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN

Salvador Dali’s understanding of Freud was in the ambiguous transfer of desire to reality;where desire cannot be represented directly or consciously, it takes the form of a distortion of reality as an absurdity. A strange convergence of the elements of … Continue reading

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