Dionysus vs. Osiris

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  Get along little Goddies. As a child I asked God to stop my Dad from drinking but God wasn't able to get to my request or most likely he simply couldn't stop my Dad from drinking or my supposition which I'm sure was the case ie. no God exists. Now Michele Bachmann and her ilk argue for God ( in the person of the sap God Jesus  ) but I'm thinking more along the line of the God who has no name, the big Kahuna the cause of causes!! People like me people who read some philosophy maybe even artists who tend towards the philosophical have given some thought to God and or God's non-existence. Indeed when so-called spiritual issues arise in visual art say around Mark Rothko things get slippery, spiritual qualities exist but I think Rothko was a little deluded he began to believe his own myth. Rainbow nilhilism maybe but all that black at the end black and Ad Reinhardt went black. As if you see an eternal darkness ahead. We give death a lot of room in our life, it is the period at the end of the sentence of life.  We are biological beings after all, the clock stops for no one. Rothko was so depressed the dark paintings the black paintings should have woken up somebody to his pain. Rothko always seemed to me great but not Matisse, meanings he was  broken, like me like a lot of people with mental illnesses. Depression wasn't treated very well in the 1950's and early 60's, but it was a causual element in a lot of suicide. Depression was sort of normal response tro Eisenhower adminisration years 53-61 . The nuke standoff was distressing, it was bland like faded antique, dusty. Rothko's color work was very challenging like Pollock the large paintings were all over compositions, the painting was the composition. Pollock was in LIFE Magazine painting a picture, he was huge celebrity like Pablo Picasso had been. After a while art becomes like a secular religion what you believe in is art, art is what you do what you think and what you dream.  The religious issue is very personal and it can change over time and just vanish. Rothko's color paintings on large scale paintings opened opportunities for other artists to explore the new pictorial field. Color is the form maker and the controlling structural facter in large scale abstracted pictures, Pollock turned his color way down and Rothko turned his color way up. De Kooning struggled with images and his abstracted images are the fixings of paintings which have big color and over all form. De Kooning was the most popular artist who painted in the art school days - every body copied his moves his colors etc.  I tried but I got Cezanne's green  and red orange things, in the murk of Courbet goo. Awful but not deKooning - the over all pattern surface  like Pollock the big saturated color from Rothko and lots of images smeared and not. - I did a lot of silk screen printing when was young in school and later. Silkscreen is Asian technique and it requires more prep than some media. Oddly it was a very high profile technique in the early 1960's because of Andy Warhol and the use of silkscreen in industry. But that's another story. Osiris is the proto-Christ the resurrected God. Osiris was torn into 11 or 12 pieces - Dionysus brought us the wine from grapes - he is still much loved also works in theater and arts as social and sexual lubricant. Loosens the heart. Can your God invent wine?