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Elemental Life
Presented by S. Calvert 1912
adults
emotions, concepts and ideas
existence
female
hill
landscape
nudes
people
universal concepts
woman
wooded
<p>Calvert set out some of the principles which guided his art in an essay entitled 'The Four Phases of Life.' These were the Elemental, associated with Pan, God of the shepherds; the Simple, associated with Dionysius, God of wine, Ectasy and Fertility; the Mythic associated with Hermes, messenger of the Gods; and the Votive, associated with Phoebus, or the Sun, and which possessed a 'reverence for moral powers, of gods still higher.' This work illustrates the first of these, where Man 'finds himself in the midst of a beautiful order of things... revealed to his senses, and full of suggestiveness to his imagination of vital power contained therein.'</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 1998</em></p>
painting oil paint board
Elemental Life
support: 168 × 276 mm
Presented by S. Calvert 1912
<p>Calvert set out some of the principles which  guided his art in an essay entitled 'The Four  Phases of Life.' These were the Elemental,  associated with Pan, God of the shepherds; the  Simple, associated with Dionysius, God of wine,  Ectasy and Fertility; the Mythic associated with  Hermes, messenger of the Gods; and the Votive,  associated with Phoebus, or the Sun, and which  possessed a 'reverence for moral powers, of gods  still higher.' This work illustrates the first of  these, where Man 'finds himself in the midst of a  beautiful order of things... revealed to his  senses, and full of suggestiveness to his  imagination of vital power contained therein.'</p>
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1998-09-28T00:00:00
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adults emotions, concepts and ideas existence female hill landscape nudes people universal concepts woman wooded