Word: minotaur
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...color) catch a variety of styles and colors-plus this personal note. Picasso has seldom been more tender than in his first portrait of Marie-Thėrėse Walter, and rarely has he endowed a figure with such regality as in the second portrait of her. The Minotaur is all passion, sad and fierce at once, almost like the master himself, and in the portrait of the woman with the dramatic hat, all conventions of beauty and ugliness are swept aside, as if the artist were intent only in crashing through the skin to get a look inside...
...program of recorded music next Monday through Friday at the Busch-Reisinger Museum garden will be Beethoven, Quartet no. 7; Brahms, Clarinet Quintet; Debussy, Images pour orchestre (work related to art); Carter, The Minotaur; Mozart, Concerto for two pianos no. 1; and Mozart, Divertimento...
...underlying story comes from Greek myth via the Hippolytus of Euripides. Hippolytus is the bastard son of Theseus, slayer of the Minotaur, and Hippolyte, single-breasted queen of the Amazons. He lives in the home of Theseus and Theseus' young bride Phaedra. An outdoors he-man sort, Hippolytus neglects the service of Aphrodite, goddess of love. The goddess puts a sex hex on Phaedra, who is consumed with a ravenous passion for her stepson Hippolytus. She is rebuffed in her advances, and in revenge tells Theseus that the boy has made attempts on her virtue. Theseus prays...
...note that your book reviewer (Story for Icarus) and the Culver illustrator like their Minotaur with a human body and a bull-like head. How come? Ovid, of course, is evasive, but old Bulfinch (ponder the possibilities in that name!) tells it just the other way around. A minor existential choice, perhaps, but not, indeed, without its psychological implications...
...Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867) indeed grasped the Minotaur by the tail; most scholars since then either evade the issue or take the beast by the horns...