How to Be Worthy of Being Human: A Look at 2 Paintings
Reaching Within: What traditional art offers the heart
Many stories in Western culture warn of the woes that come from challenging the divine. Today, we will investigate two paintings that illustrate one of these stories: “Apollo as Victor Over Pan” by Jacob Jordaens, and “Apollo and Marsyas” by Bartolomeo Manfredi.
The Musical Contest Between Apollo and Pan (Marsyas)
As the ancient Greek story goes, Athena was playing the flute until she saw her reflection in a body of water. Playing the flute distorted her beauty so much that she threw the flute away in disgust.
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Before artist Dana Levy came to St. Louis, she didnât think the city would provide an âextremeâ enough setting for her work. But when the Israeli-born artist traveled in 2019 to north St. Louis, she had never seen a place like it, she recalled.
If the buildings, abandoned, crumbling and covered in vegetation, were any indication, many people from wealthier parts of the city had not
seen it either â or at least taken a long look. Levy had found the right area to film her surreal warning about the future.
She gathered eagles, owls, vultures and lizards and filmed them north of the Delmar Divide, a geographical boundary often used as a reference point to explain the socioeconomic and racial differences that exist in the city.
Asya Geisberg Gallery opens Angelina Gualdoni s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery
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