Visual Art
Mar 2, 2016 at 4:00 am
He was a Painter Who Showed Me the Beauty and Dangers of Being an Other
As my uncle Cal’s mind and body started to deteriorate, he couldn’t have sex anymore, so he made increasingly sensual paintings. This is his 1988 painting Venusberg, a depiction of the subterranean sex grotto ruled by Venus in Wagner’s opera Tannhäuser.
Cal Pedranti/Photo by Joan Lam/Courtesy of Wagner Society of Northern California
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Sweet. Thanks
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This moved me to tears. Thank you so much for sharing, all of it.
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ps, the image link for Love Potion seems to be broken
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so thoughtful and innovative! He must love this article so! great work!
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Excellent piece, and beautifully written. Thanks for sharing. The ending especially resonated with me. I have struggled to find balance between all the things I want or aspire to achieve. But I've learned that you can't have it all. Coming to terms with that has helped me tremendously and allowed me to find a sort of inner peace.
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What a beautiful story of continually finding art and meaning in what the world has rejected..
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"Surging music cutting through centuries and across ocean floors" -- wow, this whole piece is symphonic!
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