Andre Malraux, utterly timeless art made visible.
Persephone makes mythology a tool to represents the rejuvenation of the tree of life and spring.
Unseen images, the basket of flowers associated with fecundity, are familiar. The Greek myth narrates Persephone's abduction by Hades into the underworld. Persephone ultimately seizes command of her destiny and assumes the role of the underworld queen. More than one reality certainly exists in otherworlds.
The tree of life grew, its branches stretching toward complexity.
The lanky bird, fabled in European folklore as a bringer of life making the invisible weirdness of art visible.
Odd images that never show crises of confidence in bizarre are imbued with an existential message about the human condition. The hope and promise of spring and summer give way to decay and death before the cycle renews again.
Persephone is a symbol of spring, as a symbol of a revolt against fate, the completion of an old life and the vessel for a new one.
We think there is natural art genetics in every viewer, and at the origin of a commitment to ‘going further’ in both art and life, along ceremonies like the Mysteries of Osiris that celebrated the god of the underworld’s rebirth, or the basket of flowers, associated with fecundity. The prunus evoked the beauty of winter, the peony spring, the lotus summer, and the chrysanthemum integrity and autumn.
We artists are mythmakers, and we participate with everybody else in the social construction of reality, expressing everything from direct quotations to the unsayable.
Helen Mayer Harrison, Each flower possesses a unique essence, embodying the individuality that lies within each of us.
Persephone captures the transient, fleeting nature of existence through the captivating aesthetic of flowers. Despite their ephemeral presence, flowers hold profound expressions of human emotions.
Life sprouts from cracks in the asphalt. Life cannot help happening.
The picture went against conventions at a very young age and left its comfort zone. All we have so far is theories.
Persephone's journey signifies a descent into the somber aspects of life such as winter and mortality, while her emergence back to the surface represents the rebirth, growth, and rejuvenation of spring.
Portraiture tolds us fundamental truths about humanity, identity, passion and desire.
This puts the whole person in touch with with their life giving well springs of thought and feeling.
Storks return in February and March, coinciding with increases in human births nine months after midsummer weddings.
Art enables people to get in touch with their deeper subconscious mind and intuition.
Urban Grasshopper transcending time and place. This is obviously way out there in terms of strangeness.
In ancient Central American cultures, bats were associated with the underworld, death, and rebirth.
Fascinating, but sad story.
The birds did what feathered creatures tend to do.
The invisible weirdness of art made visible.
What is a piece of evergreen advice you would give to collectors? Life isn't weird, it's just the people in it at the arrival of spring.
The benefits of making pictures are never all or nothing, Persephone said, but instead exist on a continuum.
Real fairies drawing attention to previously overlooked areas of art.
It’s really puzzling, but everything is possible with artworks.
Being able to feel, express and (where necessary) control your emotions will contribute hugely to your life, what you experience may not exist. She questions why certain visual languages attain recognition and value.
Persephone captures the fleeting nature of our existence.
The exhibition suggests that painting remains in a constant state of renewal and rebirth.
