Pasiphae And The Cretan Bull, Contemporary Conceptual Art, Picture Francis Bacon Style
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Tittle, Pasiphae And The Cretan Bull. Madrid, Spain 2010
NOTE, the small sized photo prints will be done with CONVENTIONAL photo paper because after many test the cotton paper do not give a good balance of gray areas; the medium and big sized prints will be done with giclee and cotton paper as usual. This is an original artwork. Measure is all paper print including a white band at borders. I refund over shipping cost if there is any. I need time for processing my prints, always keeping you updated.
PASIPHAE was an immortal daughter of the sun-god Helios. Like her siblings, Aeetes and Kirke (Circe), she was a skilled practitioner of witchcraft (pharmakeia). Pasiphae married King Minos of Krete (Crete) and bore him a number of sons and daughters. As punishment for some offence against the gods--committed either by herself or her husband -she was cursed with lust for the king's finest bull. The queen enlisted the help of the artisan Daidalos (Daedalus) who built her an animate, wooden cow wrapped in bovine-skin. Hidden inside the contraption she coupled with the bull and conceived a hybrid child- the bullheaded Minotauros (Minotaur).
Pasiphae's husband King Minos also proved unfaithful. When she learned of his indiscretions she bewitched him, causing him to ejaculate poisoned creatures and destroy his lovers. Pasiphae herself, being an immortal, was alone immune to the spell. Minos was later cured by the Athenian girl Prokris (Procris) who devised a remedy for the strange afflication.
Pasiphae was an early Kretan moon-goddess similar to the classical Selene. Both her taurine lover and her Minotaur son--who was also named Asterios (Starry One)--were associated with the constellation Taurus.
Tittle, Pasiphae And The Cretan Bull. Madrid, Spain 2010
NOTE, the small sized photo prints will be done with CONVENTIONAL photo paper because after many test the cotton paper do not give a good balance of gray areas; the medium and big sized prints will be done with giclee and cotton paper as usual. This is an original artwork. Measure is all paper print including a white band at borders. I refund over shipping cost if there is any. I need time for processing my prints, always keeping you updated.
PASIPHAE was an immortal daughter of the sun-god Helios. Like her siblings, Aeetes and Kirke (Circe), she was a skilled practitioner of witchcraft (pharmakeia). Pasiphae married King Minos of Krete (Crete) and bore him a number of sons and daughters. As punishment for some offence against the gods--committed either by herself or her husband -she was cursed with lust for the king's finest bull. The queen enlisted the help of the artisan Daidalos (Daedalus) who built her an animate, wooden cow wrapped in bovine-skin. Hidden inside the contraption she coupled with the bull and conceived a hybrid child- the bullheaded Minotauros (Minotaur).
Pasiphae's husband King Minos also proved unfaithful. When she learned of his indiscretions she bewitched him, causing him to ejaculate poisoned creatures and destroy his lovers. Pasiphae herself, being an immortal, was alone immune to the spell. Minos was later cured by the Athenian girl Prokris (Procris) who devised a remedy for the strange afflication.
Pasiphae was an early Kretan moon-goddess similar to the classical Selene. Both her taurine lover and her Minotaur son--who was also named Asterios (Starry One)--were associated with the constellation Taurus.
