"O Eclipse das Emoções" (The Emotions Eclipse) (2009) Painting by Carlos Boni Bonifácio

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  • Original Artwork Painting, Oil
  • Dimensions Height 47.2in, Width 39.4in
  • Categories Paintings under $20,000 Surrealism
(Portuguese Version comes after the English one) (A Versão Portuguesa vem depois da Inglesa) English Version: The painting emerging from the blue wall In the Exhibitions Room figuring in this work represents the Sphinx posing the famous problem to Oedipus Rex in the Athenian Tragedy by Sophocles and, by the way, it’s[...]
(Portuguese Version comes after the English one)
(A Versão Portuguesa vem depois da Inglesa)

English Version:

The painting emerging from the blue wall In the Exhibitions Room figuring in this work represents the Sphinx posing the famous problem to Oedipus Rex in the Athenian Tragedy by Sophocles and, by the way, it’s better to recall here that the Oedipian Myth is the very Soul of Freudian Psychoanalysis.
The setup of the referred problem is transferred, in this painting, into a chess game, being the black Pawn the key-solution and the solution-key of that legendary question.
We must remind that the Sphinx enigma was: “Which animal walks on four feet in the morning, two feet during the day and three feet in the evening?”. Oedipus answered the Sphinx fittingly that it is Man himself along the tree stages of his own life.
The fact that the solution is the pawn=man is reinforced by the detail that the pawn matches perfectly the lock of the door, which is, at its turn, the proper Oedipus nose.
This painting suggests us a multitude of personal interpretations while its upper part can be associated with our Unconscious awakening to the clearness after meditation or any other introspective work done by the whitish shape representing a female human-like body in the right side of the chess board like floor.
The Moon eclipse is, in a certain manner, the most symbolic element of this work of art since our natural Satellite is, at least, in an Astrological sense, in perfect resonance with the cycle of Human Emotions, especially in women, considering that the word Menstruation comes from the Latin (menstruus=month), being the Moon rotation period around the Earth about 28 days.
I started this painting as homage to a friend who died of heart attack in Cascais, during a Moon eclipse that occurred in 2008 in August the 16th.

Versão Portuguesa:

A Tela na parede da sala de Exposições representa a Esfinge colocando o célebre problema a Édipus Rex na tragédia de Sófocles, sendo que o mito Edípico é a Alma de toda a Psicanálise Freudiana.
O problema proposto pela Esfinge é aqui transferido para o jogo de Xadrez, e o pião é a chave desse problema. Relembrar que a Efígie havia perguntado a Édipo “qual era o animal que de manhã caminha com 4 patas, ao meio dia com 2 e à noite com 3” ao que Édipo teria respondido acertadamente que é o Homem nas 3 fases da sua vida” (e daí o pião = o Homem).
A razão da solução ser o pião é reforçada pelo facto deste encaixar perfeitamente na fechadura da porta que é por sua vez o nariz do próprio Édipo.
Esta pintura dá uma grande liberdade de associações individuais sendo que a sua parte superior, pelas tonalidades obscuras, pode simbolizar o Inconsciente a despertar para a claridade após a meditação ou qualquer trabalho analítico.
O Eclipse da Lua é o símbolo central dado que a Lua está de várias formas associada à ciclicidade das emoções (vide menstruação na mulher de 28 em 28 dias em ressonância com o período de translação da Lua em volta da Terra).
Comecei a pintar este quadro em homenagem a um amigo da minha Adolescência que faleceu com um ataque cardíaco em Cascais exactamente no dia deste eclipse de Lua em 16 de Agosto de 2008.

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