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

THE GIRL WITH THE PEACHES: PORTRAIT OF VERA MAMONTOVA (VALENTIN SEROV)

The girl with the peaches: portrait of Vera Mamontova. Valentin Serov. 1887. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), painter and sculptor With this portrait, Valentin Serov (1865-1911) bridged Russian art to French Impressionistic technique and launched Russian Impressionism.