In Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water and was transformed into a daffodil. His story has been depicted in countless works of art, from the wall paintings of Pompeii to Baroque masterpieces and even continuing to the present day. The seventeenth century artist Nicolas Poussin depicted Narcissus sprawled exhaustedly on the water’s edge. In twentieth-century artist André Masson’s painting, Narcissus plunges into a fountain after reaching out to embrace his reflection. In the background is the forest nymph Echo, subsumed within the trees and stones after Narcissus rejected her advances. On the water’s edge there are daffodils. The psychoanalyst Freud described narcissism, or selflove, as a kind of personality disorder in which one tries to regain a lost sense of oneness with the world. In the depths of the water into which Narcissus falls is the world that Surrealism seeks.
(NAkAMURA Naoaki)
In Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water and was transformed into a daffodil. His story has been depicted in countless works of art, from the wall paintings of Pompeii to Baroque masterpieces and even continuing to the present day. The seventeenth century artist Nicolas Poussin depicted Narcissus sprawled exhaustedly on the water’s edge. In twentieth-century artist André Masson’s painting, Narcissus plunges into a fountain after reaching out to embrace his reflection. In the background is the forest nymph Echo, subsumed within the trees and stones after Narcissus rejected her advances. On the water’s edge there are daffodils. The psychoanalyst Freud described narcissism, or selflove, as a kind of personality disorder in which one tries to regain a lost sense of oneness with the world. In the depths of the water into which Narcissus falls is the world that Surrealism seeks.
(NAkAMURA Naoaki)