Re-fashioned Anew

water color on paper 

DIONYSUS, the god of intoxication, madness, and ritual ecstasy, presided over the world of the theater. the embodiment of numerous contradictions - a native greek raised and surrounded by foreigners, an ever-sober god of wine, a living god ridiculed as an effeminate ‘false-man’ - his cult in antiquity was often suspected and sometimes even repressed. the modern association of dionysus with violence, with the dark or subconscious elements of the human mind (though certainly rooted in some textual and archaeological evidence) nevertheless overlooks his other, equally prevalent characteristics: the god whose most frightening epithets included ‘raging,’ ‘bull-faced,’ and ‘man-slaying,’ could in the same breath be called ‘savior,’ 'liberator,’ 'the soother of cares.’

By: Axel Linus

Currently in: Tripolis, Archäologisches Museum.

dress as grapes. just do it, pussy

Nicolas Kalmakoff (1872-1955)  #Dionysos, Gouache, touche, pencil. gold and mixed Media on paper laid on cardboard, 1908.

Robert Mapplethorpe, Snakeman, 1981

Since I’m a giant Classics nerd I made some Greek pottery inspired Easter eggs

— Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx (via xenopenthos)

(acrylics base, details with pencils and soft pastels golden paper, metallic pencil)

I have so missed you.