Selfportrait with a golden Egg - Psychology and Mythology in art: Giuseppe Alletto visual artist

#contemporaryart #painter #italianpainters #giuseppealletto #drawpicture #philosophyofart #philosophy #portrait #portraitdrawing #oilpainting #interiordesign #paintings Contemporary Art: Selfportrait with a golden Egg - Psychology and Mythology in modern art: Giuseppe Alletto visual artist Artists and writers have been looking back to the ancient world for hundreds of years. The colourful stories have inspired countless works of art and literature, but these depictions have perhaps tended to show only a limited perspective on the mythology. Of the translations, art, poetry and literature we're most familiar with, the creators tend to be pretty un-diverse – being largely white, male and typically middle class. The works accentuated the heroic and powerful while downplaying other elements of ancient Greek society such as homosexuality, gender imbalances and slavery. In some ways, this reflects the patriarchal society of ancient Greece, where women typically didn't seem to have had man