Monday, June 1, 2020

ABOUT THE MYTH OF VENUS APHRODITE



¡Oh goddess of love and beauty!
and of all feminine attributes;
born of the foam of the sea
that kisses the coastline of Cytherea.

Happy island, the Hours welcomed you
and in their diaphanous car they took you
towards Olympus the dwelling of the gods
where you left everyone speechless.

And there the laughter, the Graces and the games
were your companions, your courtship;
wearing a diadem of myrtle and roses
and doves and swans as escorts.

A girdle made it even more attractive
your sexy figure in her charms
with the force that in male–gods
you exercised in youthful power.

Jupiter the father to them all,
advised by the jealous Hera
—"mulier muliere lupa"— arranged your compromise  
to the ugliest of all around, Vulcan.

An unpresentable misshapen dwarf
all dirty from soot from the smithy
where he forged the weapons to the gods;
a funny couple you made by all accounts.

It didn't take long for others to comfort you,
among them Ares, let's say the "alpha male"
of that court of gods and heroes;
the prototype of testosterone.

Opposite poles you represented fully
the Yin and Yang contraries in fight
the feminine and masculine extremes;
and Sparks flew (from Hephaistos's anvil).

Tired already a little bit of fighting
you somewhat fickle noticed by chance
a well-endowed young man from Arabia:
the passionate hunter named Adonis.

So when living in an intense romance
the jealousy of the warrior awoke
—for violent Ares horns did not consent—
and plotted a revenge which is described
in three sonnets that the story relates. 

... 
Here now goes   "THREE SONNETS TO ADONIS"
...

Serve a stanza to summarize the facts:

"All without missing a year Aphrodite arrives
to the harmful place where her lover died,
mortal wounded by Ares that was cause 
of the wild boar of jealousy that thus reaped the rose .

After his death —or rather murder—
the dea using her olympic influence
made him be like a god up in the skies;
his worship not included sacrifices
thus avoiding such bloody bad memories;
only incense and delicate perfumes.

Cry now with Venus in justice for a thing
that Adonis symbolizes as archetype:
lose youth when you bid the most;
although never worn away by time
as that the old adage here applies:
"he who the gods (or goddess) love dies young."








© albertotrocóniz / 14
Text: from “RITES, MYTHS, SYMBOLS”
Image: “Aphrodite between Mirths and Doves” 
from “DRAWING & PAINTING”

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Monday, March 2, 2020

THE MACBETHS ALSO ILL OF A CORONA-VIRUS



Mental connection in present troubled times,
is good excuse to introduce mi drawing:

"Corona Virus", depicts also the case 
of crown ambition of Macbeth an his wife…

(crown is corona according latin roots).

One more example of curious sincronicity
when I started to make another project .

Work  done in informatics media.
Copies avaiable on photographic paper, without the watermark, numered at the back  and with the original author signature.
(Frame not included; the tone can change somewhat in comparison with the screen).
Sizes and Price: bigest length in paper  A5 / 100€ ,  A4 / 150 € ,  A3 / 250€  …plus shipping costs, other formats please consult.
Send your commands to albertotroconiz@mac.com

© albertotrocóniz / 20
Image: “The Macbeths Prepare Assassination
in “DRAWING & PAINTING”
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Tuesday, February 4, 2020

VARIOUS EVANGELISTS



Why only just the four evangelists 
for present times of "totum revolutum"?.



© albertotrocóniz / 19
Image: “Evangelists”
from “DRAWING & PAINTING
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

A GREAT SURPRISE IS A SNOWFALL IN HELL


... because Orfeo having transgressed the law 
to rescue Eurydice in journey to the depths 
of the underworld immersed in the dark

... has crossed the lake of memory of cold waters, 
and his arrival announces a snowfall 
the notes of his lyre in falling flakes.




© albertotrocóniz / 18
Text from “PICTO-POETIC MOMENTS ”
Image: “Snowfall in Hell”
in “DESIGN & PAINTING”

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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

LOVE IS TO LOOK…


Love is to look into the one in front
and discover astonished the message 
"I'm you", "you are me" ... oh how exciting
the bridges to each other is to walk!

then being conscious that behind the forms
—yours and mine apparently much different—
there is a high calling identity that asks
to join our mouths, our bodies, our souls:

fly high and high, so very steep afar
to timeless time, to the gardens beyond
where we were as a unit, there abaft
all love expressions, melted in pure silence.





© albertotrocóniz / 14
Texto: de “POEMS OF LAY LOVE”
Image: “Eros and Psique”,
A.Canova (1793), Louvre Museum


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Sunday, February 11, 2018

THE RED STONE


In the ancient city the “Red Stone” was found,
it had skulls as bricks, dry blood as mortar;
a holy totem was to the tribes there.





© albertotrocóniz / 18
Text from ”PICTO-POETICAL FLASHES ”
Image: “Red Stone”
from "DRAWING AND PAINTING"

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Saturday, February 10, 2018

ETHIOPIAN AURIGA


As a light that advances in the desert
leaving behind the clouds of dust the chariot
rises in progress trough the mist of the dunes,
like a divine ray is your appearance; 
an instrument of some arcane punishment.

Leaving aside the freshness of the oasis,
in front in heaven in flight a pair of pigeons 
guides the way to the forsaken tower.





© albertotrocóniz / 18
Text from ”PICTO-POETICAL FLASHES ”
Image: "Ethiopian Auriga "
of "DRAWING AND PAINTING"

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