LIFE AS MYTH

A FEMININE MYTH

A feminine myth

The pure land

Riddling the way to Zen

The Buddha

Hsi Wang Mu, goddess of immortality

The birth of Venus

Pandora and the golden box

Riders of the Sidhe

Liath Faill

The girl with the peaches: portrait of Vera Mamontova (Valentin Serov)

Carnation Lily, Lily Rose (John Singer Sargent)

The mermaid at Clonfert Cathedral

Princess and the Goblin

Olympia (Édouard Manet)

Pegasus, the horse-god

The slaying of the Medusa and the rescue of Andromeda

The slaying of the chimera

Mag Mell

Alterswerk

 

SUMMER 2008

CARNATION LILY, LILY ROSE (JOHN SINGER SARGENT)

Carnation Lily, Lily Rose. John Singer Sargent. 1885-86. Tate Gallery. London.   Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British writer and essayist Of this painting, often considered his masterpiece, Sargent said: A fearful difficult subject.