Pan - God of the Wilds, The Shepherds and the Herds
A complex and tormented fello
Oil on canvas, original 36/36”= $4500(+additional invoice for shipping)
Giclee fine art prints on thick matte paper with a subtle watercolor texture. Small prints 12/12”=$55, large prints 20/20”=$278.
"Pan of Mount Malea, the goatherd's screw."
Callimachus, Fragment 689 (Greek poet C3rd B.C.)
Forever horny, never laid. Pan pursued the nymphs of Arkkadia endlessly.
Syrinx, nymph of the river, laughed at him when he professed his love. He chased her, and she fled to the safety of the other River Nymphs.
She begged them to turn her into a bundle of river reads so that she could escape her stalker.
Pan found her as a bundle of river reads and took one, used his horn to hollow it (he gave that read the business), and made it into his iconic flute.
Echo Nymph of the Mountain, who actually loved Pan, was forced to sing the songs of his syrinx flute with sorrow.
"Melodious Pan sat beside herds of goats or sheepcoates playing his tune on the assembled reeds, . . . imitating Ekho (Echo) returned the sounds of his pipes . . . prattler as she was whose lips which were wont to sound with the pipe of Pan never silent."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 45. 174 ff
The Nymphs pitied Pan, because he danced like goat. So, they set out to teach him how to dance. As the Nymphs twerked and two stepped about, Pans “garment began to extend”, the nymphs called him a creep, tied him up, shaved his beard, and tried to talk Echo out of loving him.
A complex and tormented fello
Oil on canvas, original 36/36”= $4500(+additional invoice for shipping)
Giclee fine art prints on thick matte paper with a subtle watercolor texture. Small prints 12/12”=$55, large prints 20/20”=$278.
"Pan of Mount Malea, the goatherd's screw."
Callimachus, Fragment 689 (Greek poet C3rd B.C.)
Forever horny, never laid. Pan pursued the nymphs of Arkkadia endlessly.
Syrinx, nymph of the river, laughed at him when he professed his love. He chased her, and she fled to the safety of the other River Nymphs.
She begged them to turn her into a bundle of river reads so that she could escape her stalker.
Pan found her as a bundle of river reads and took one, used his horn to hollow it (he gave that read the business), and made it into his iconic flute.
Echo Nymph of the Mountain, who actually loved Pan, was forced to sing the songs of his syrinx flute with sorrow.
"Melodious Pan sat beside herds of goats or sheepcoates playing his tune on the assembled reeds, . . . imitating Ekho (Echo) returned the sounds of his pipes . . . prattler as she was whose lips which were wont to sound with the pipe of Pan never silent."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 45. 174 ff
The Nymphs pitied Pan, because he danced like goat. So, they set out to teach him how to dance. As the Nymphs twerked and two stepped about, Pans “garment began to extend”, the nymphs called him a creep, tied him up, shaved his beard, and tried to talk Echo out of loving him.