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| The air up there: Magritte's surrealism |
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Magritte differed in
many respects from his surrealist contemporaries. Magritte's paintings did
not evoke the haunting isolation of De Chirico's abandoned landscapes, the
organic sensuality and eroticism of Dali's hallucinations, or the inventive,
eccentric fantasy of Miro.Born with a Jupiter-Neptune
trine, Magritte's brand of surrealism was more of a sedative, intoxicating
elevation of mundane reality than the often nightmarish dystopias that were
offered up by the other surrealists.
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Although
Magritte juxtaposed objects in an incongruous manner, the result is not one
of shock but of pleasant serendipity. The expansive, airy backdrops foregrounded
by a logic only available in dreams is perfectly representative of the Jupiter•Neptune
combination.
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| Drunk with rapture:
Parrish's "Dreaming" |
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Maxfield Parrish's commercial art may just be the most perfect expression
of the Jupiter•Neptune combination. Ironically,
though Parrish was born with both Jupiter sextile Neptune and Saturn trine
Neptune, his paintings are heavily skewed to the ideal, heavenly fantasies
of Jupiter-Neptune. Saturn' s influence seems to be only in service in this
case, making the
lush utopia of
Jupiter•Neptune more palpable, more visceral. The
detail from the painting appropriately titled "Dreaming," is
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indicative
of Parrish's mature style. The color scheme is both hallucinatory and completely
bewitching. His usual choice of women as subject matter are both idealized
and stripped of sexuality—pure, virginal. The architecture speaks of
the harmony of Greece's golden age. The natural settings are both bountiful
and serenely gorgeous. The composite effect is the Jupiter•Neptune heaven
realized.
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