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Meinrad Craighead's personal web site with biographical information,
critical reviews of her work, displays of many of her paintings, and the current schedule for her Creative Retreats
for Women entitled "Praying with Images." Also included is information about how to order prints of her
work directly from her. Available are individual prints, a portfolio entitled "Sacred Marriage," sets,
notecards, and post cards.
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Artist, Konsta Korhonen, has created a series of eight paintings
for the play "Job/Song of Songs," produced at the "International Institute of Applied Aesthetics"
in Lahti, Finland. There is a possibility that this play may be recreated in LA, California.
Click the picture to enter Konsta's gallery.
Prints are available for sale.
Write to Konsta.Korhonen@nic.fi
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New insights into the mysteries of kissing.
Look deeper into the Grand Illusion through the eyes of visionary artist Alex Grey.
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The web of life on Earth is an exquisitely balanced and interwoven, living system—one might even say: a living being. In the "mythic naturalism" of Jonathon
Earl Bowser, Nature, woman, and
the Divine Feminine are envisioned as a continuum.
Likewise, the Song of Songs explores the landscape of a woman's body, in a vision of human continuity with the
larger life of the Earth. Robert Alter describes a remarkable sequence of images (verses 4:1 through 5:1)...
- "which first represents the woman's body
as a mountainous landscape teeming with animal life, then evokes the actual mountains of northern Israel and Lebanon
from which the lover asks his beloved to come down with him, and finally once again represents the woman's body
as landscape: this time, an enclosed bower ripe with fuit, moistened by a fresh-running spring that has its source
in Lebanon, the water thus flowing underground from the literal landscape just mentioned to the figurative garden."
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"THE SONG OF SONGS"
ZEEV RABAN,
1890-1970
24 color plates 19,2 X 12.5 cm from the second edition published in Jerusalem by Shulamit, in 1960's (The first
edition published by Hasefer Publishing House, Berlin 1923) Mayanot Gallery, Jerusalem
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"You are a fountain in the garden,
a well of living waters... "
( Song of Songs: 15:4 )
"Daphnis and Chloe beside the
Fountain"— One of 42 lithographs
created by modern master, Marc Chagall, to illustrate the idyllic love story of Daphnis and Chloe. The complete
collection can be viewed at the Weinstein Gallery on-line.
Chagall's artistic style, blending sensuality with childlike spontaneity, is perfectly suited to his subject—conveying
the same innocent sensuality that we find in the Song of Songs. The 17th century English poet, Robert Herrick,
called it "cleanly wantonness." And in the words of translators, Ariel and Chana Bloch...
- "In some respects, the Song seems very accessible
to readers now, more so than it has been for some two thousand years... we find the frankness about erotic love
more natural than did earlier audiences. In our day it is the innocence of the Song, its delicacy, that has the
power to surprise... To read the Song is to recover, through the power of art, a freshness of spirit that is now
all but lost to us."
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Artist David Moss writes from Jerusalem:
"When the project began, the Russian and Ethiopian immigrations were very fresh.
The verse from Solomon's Song of Songs sprang to mind: "Black am I, and beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem,
like Kedar tents, like Solomon's drapes." and the idea for the book was fixed. Solomon's Song of Songs is
the great Jewish book of Love. We have always read it as an intimate love story between God and the Jewish people.
Rabbi Akiva said that if all the books of the Bible are holy, then this book is the holy of holies. The book exudes
a sensuous love of the Land of Israel-its hills, rivers, trees, fruits, its cities, flowers, animals. And who can
calculate what part the constant rereading of this great poem has played in our great longing to return to our
land during the centuries of our separation? Is any love story more romantic than that between the Jewish people,
our God and our Land? "Return, Return, O Shulamite, return, return that we may gaze on you." And patiently,
expectantly, hopefully and longingly we waited; never wavering in our love; never doubting our return."
Perhaps one day this love will mature,
and embrace the whole Earth
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Sights
and Sounds of the Song of Songs
Ratner Museum Virtual Tour: Song of Songs
The title image is a detail from a painting
by Marc Chagall
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