Winter Solstice and the day of the Conjunction of the planets Saturn & Jupiter!

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Today is Winter Solstice AND the day of the Conjunction of the planets Saturn & Jupiter! We explored both of these planetary giants mythologically & in modern terms in Baroque artist Nicolas Chaperon's The Nurturing of Saturn from the 1640s. Jealous Saturn is looking at baby Jupiter mighty hungrily! But we know his mother will soon hide him away for safe-keeping! 

We reveled at Wassily Kandinsky's 1926 orbital masterpiece Several Circles & got lost in the installation art of Liz Tran's Drops, a large, hanging site-specific work with planet-like orbs of varied sizes, buoyant patterns & bright hues. 

Lastly, we marveled at Joan Miró's Constellation: Towards the Rainbow from 194. This is one of a series of his paintings exploring the skies (way) above! 

Happy Conjunction Junction, everyone!  

  • Nicolas Chaperon, The Nurture of Jupiter, ~1640 -- link --
  • Kandinsky, Several Circles 1926 -- link --
  • Liz Tran, Drops, The Seattle Art Museum's Paccar Pavilion at the Olympic Sculpture Park -- link --
  • Joan Miró, Constellations 1959 -- link --

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