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  • Astrology: Frida KAHLO, born 1907/07/06, Horoscope, Natal Chart, Biography, Planets, Photo.

    Christian and Jewish themes are often depicted in her work as well; she combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with surrealist renderings. While her paintings are not overtly Christian they certainly contain elements of the Mexican Christian style of religious paintings.

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    art on 2009-04-27

    • Christian and Jewish themes are often depicted in her work as well; she combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with surrealist renderings. While her paintings are not overtly Christian they certainly contain elements of the Mexican Christian style of religious paintings.



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      Helen Langdon 1998 HL p.174
      The setting is Matthew s tax office but the scene conjures up the shady atmosphere of long evenings spent gambling or looking armed for adventure in the streets and taverns of Rome.
      The subject is taken from a short passage in the gospel of Matthew (9.9): 'Jesus saw a man called Matthew at his seat in the custom house and said to him 'Follow me ' and Matthew rose and followed him.'
      ...Matthew rich and fashionably dressed as befitted his status as toll-gatherer and publican a coin tucked in the brim of his hat sits at his work table with his louche companions.
      ...Caravaggio sets a world of brilliant colour of bold contrasts of reds greens and golds of the varied textures of velvets rakish feathers and soft fur against the timeless and austere simplicity of Christ and Peter roughly toga-clad and barefoot. He contrasts lightness of gesture and expression with ritual solemnity and the hand of Christ is modelled on Michelangelo's hand of Adam on the Sistine ceiling.
      ...The play of light and shade creates intense drama. The figures are wrapped in shadow and the large area of dark wall over their heads seems to weigh upon them prison-like suggesting man's brief stay in this gloomy world. The darkness is pierced by the shaft of light which falls diagonally across the wall following Christ's hand and brightens the face of St Matthew who turns towards it. It is a moving symbol of divine illumination. Matthew was widely thought of as a sinner whose call redeemed him from the dark abyss of sin. As St John Chrysostom wrote 'Matthew... was a publican living in continual rapine. But he... all at once stripped himself of the mischief and quenched his thirst and followed after spiritual gain'.

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    • counter reformation
    • Michelangelo born in Caravaggio in Lombardy
      not far from Milan was from a good family of the noble line of Amarigi but rose
      markedly through his great passion for painting
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  • George Grosz

    • Dadaism was the only significant artistic
      movement in Germany for decades.
    • Dadaism forced artists to declare openly their
      position .. . What did the dadaists do? They
      said that it did not matter whether a man blew a
      'raspberry' or recited a sonnet by Petrarca or
      Shakespeare or Rilke, whether he gilded
      jack-boot heels or carved statues of the Virgin.
      Shooting went on regardless, profiteering went
      on regardless, people would go on starving
      regardless, lies would always be told
      regardless�what was the good of art anyway?
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  • Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1100-1850)

    • money lenders or of gamblers seated around a table like Saint Matthew and his associates.
    • nearly silent, dramatic narrative.
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