2 PM: the image has once again shifted in keeping with my process of layering images and collaged elements until she sings. the head of the bull, so central to ancient minoan iconoggraphy has once again come to the fore. in this case, the original was a late minoan vase, made in about 1450 BC and said to be from attica, in the collection of the metropolitan museum, nyc.
picasso, modigliani and henry moore are but a few of the artists inspired by the art of the minoan civilization. and it's easy to see why: the fluidity and boldness of the forms they created, the colors they employed......