Friday, January 13, 2012

COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY: Notes on the Symbolism of Saturn/ 'Old Saturn' by Eric Whollem/ A contemporary pictographic abstraction/ MODERN ART



OLD SATURN
1985
by Eric Whollem
gouache resist on paper
Collection of the artist
15" x 20"
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST


COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY
Notes on the Symbolism of Saturn

Saturn is said, in some mystical astrological systems, to symbolize
the Mesoamerican racial groups. Saturn, or Cronos, in Greek
mythology is said in that mythic tradition, to have devoured his own
children.

Artistically I attempted to indicate the cultures of ancient America in
the above painting, by utilizing pictographic stylization.

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