Concealed Forms - Female Connotations on Earth and Moon
Concealed Forms - Female Connotations on Earth and Moon

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to present the symbolic signification that Earth, Moon and female forms have in ancient mythology and the diversity of artistic representations. For Gaston Bachelard, the perfect method in analyzing the phenomenology of images is to designate the image as an excess of the imagination. The main task of the imagination is to enlarge it beyond reality. "To truly overcome, you must increase, because the imagination works freely on space, forces, time or shapes. Imagination works not only with plane images, but also in the ideas having the capacity to push to excesses. There are ideas that dream. Certain scientific theories are vast reveries, boundless reveries" says Gaston Bachelard in his book, The Poetics of Space . But all these associations or reveries that seem to be initially mere personal observations on the similarities between the different things that surround us, became actually the basis of the most important scientific discoveries. As well as in art, they were at the origin of some of the most important myths of civilization, poems, sculptures and paintings. Without the aforementioned observations, the art would not have had the depth and complexity it achieves through these exercises of imagination both on earth and in heaven. Regardless of the different epochs that humanity has gone through in its history, the observations of the interconnections in the visible and the invisible world or between the different realms and phenomena of nature, for example, have given people moments of fear, of knowledge (of science) or reverie (poets and artists). So the discussion of the feminine form is inconceivable without mentioning an entire connected world that people, regardless of age, taste or culture, that are related to it.

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