tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post5428113690714611957..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Arty Farty Friday ~ 3 Sides of Charles Demuth's Art : Sensitive, Homoerotic, Precisionist.Twilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-48933514888936497622015-11-06T12:28:22.796-06:002015-11-06T12:28:22.796-06:00mike ~ I agree that it's the Gemini coming out...mike ~ I agree that it's the Gemini coming out in his nature, enabling his varsatility in art style. (I almost wrote as much in the post, in fact.) <br /><br />I like his Precisionist paintings - they attract me more than the flower studies - though those are pretty enough, they don't have a lot of individual improvisation (as do O'Keeffe's flower studies). His erotic stuff doesn't appeal - not because I'm what's known as straight myself, but because they seem rather like childish doodles. Aubrey Beardsley's art in that genre attracts me - always has, even through my so-called straightness, it's skilled and imaginative artwork. ;-)<br /><br />Your speculation as to positioning of the planets fits very well. I'd thought about 6th house for the Gemini trio myself, but didn't go on to assess where the rest would fall - and as you've calculated, it does all fit very well indeed.<br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-5357154812119810992015-11-06T09:55:53.773-06:002015-11-06T09:55:53.773-06:00You mention that his artistic styles camouflage th...You mention that his artistic styles camouflage the singular artist that produced them. His oeuvre can be divided into distinctive groupings sharing similarity and homogeneity. A facet of his Gemini planets? I like all of his work, but I don't quite connect with them...something is lacking, maybe an emotional appeal. Demuth's overt, homoerotic art is polar to O'Keeffe: her's is fluid, metaphoric female sexuality, vibrantly colored, passionate and sensual. His less overt, metaphoric male sexuality, industrial art is linear-cubist, rather drab-colored, surficial, and cool to the emotions. Demuth and O'Keeffe had yin-yang artistic styles. I can understand their mutual fondness by looking at their synastry:<br />http://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Georgia_O'Keeffe<br />Ken Johnson called his still-lifes sensuous and lively...I agree with lively, but sensuous only referring to tactile, not sexual.<br /><br />His astrology is fitting, as you indicate. The final dispositors are Sun and Mars in mutual reception, with Mercury and Pluto also in mutual reception. Two sets of planets in mutual reception, with both sets as final dispositors are not common in a natal chart. All four of these planets form frictional aspects among themselves: Mars quintile Pluto and square Sun-Mercury, Mercury inconjunct Pluto. <br /><br />I'm just guessing for the fun of it...perhaps his early Gemini planets fell in his 6th house (health), putting Mars-Jupiter in the 8th (sex), with Uranus somewhere near the MC (known for shocking the public and the avant garde), some of the Scorpio planets in the 12th (confinement, health restrictions)...giving him a Sagittarius ASC (ruler Jupiter in the 8th, associating his 1st house identity with expanding ideology of sex). This array could allow a Neptune placement in the 5th of creativity.mikenoreply@blogger.com