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| Harmony, peace, beauty; The world of Botticelli |
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In the "Primavera,"
and other
Botticelli works, it is as important to notice what is represented as what
is missing. In his paintings, figures interact in a way in which strife, sexuality,
conflict, and ill-will were completely absent. Botticelli succeeds in rarefying
the human condition by accentuating only the higher ideals—indicative,
of course, of Jupiter's
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propensity to elevate and exalt the more noble aspects
of the psyche.
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| Gauguin's Participation Mystique |
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Post-Impressionist Paul
Gauguin, born with Jupiter trine Neptune, exalts and idealizes Tahitian "primitives"
in much the same way that Botticelli glamorizes Greco-Roman figures. In the
detail from the painting above, Gauguin uses a surreal, otherworldly color
palette to evoke the magical, mythological mind- set that the
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Tahitian primitives
inhabit. The beautiful lushness of tropical surroundings comes as close at
visually evoking
participation mystique as any painter in Western history.
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| The intoxicating beauty of Renoir's Paris |
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Possessing a natal sextile
between Jupiter and Neptune, Renoir arguably developed the most refined and
gorgeous brushstroke in Western painting. The only adjective that does true
justice to Renoir's subject matter and style is "enchanting." The
diffuse light in the above painting gives an everyday outing in a Parisian
park an intoxicating and enrapturing seductive beauty.
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| Jupiter and Neptune in the park with George |
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The development of an
entirely new technique of painting may be more indicative of the planet Uranus,
however, the overall effect of Seurat's pointillism is representative of Seurat's
natal grand trine between Venus, Neptune, and Jupiter. The airy, bright atmospheres,
the cerulean blues, and figures frozen in
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time gives the viewer the sense
that he or she is peering in upon a higher plane of reality—not 19th
Century Paris.
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