These dichotomies are reflected in the title and nature of my painting “Truelove”. This is a very large painting (1.3 meters x 2.9 meters) and for such large paintings some kind of underlying scaffolding (or underlying geometrical plan) is often needed. The underlying scaffolding of my painting is a Double Golden Rectangle between well-defined upper and lower boundaries and indeed exactly the same as that employed in my painting “Qana” (about the recent destruction of Qana in Lebanon by Israel) which in turn was based conceptually and geometrically on Pablo Picasso’s 1937 anti-war masterpiece “Guernica” (for a detailed discussion see MWC News ).

In short, the Golden Rectangle geometry (beloved of Ancient Greeks and Ancient Egyptians and of painters since the Italian Renaissance) has an implicit Fibonacci Sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 …) in which successive numbers are the sum of the previous two and which defines a huge spiral. This construction in which the Length (L) is exactly Phi (1.618) times the Width (W), is achieved by the overlap of two circles confined exactly within separate squares in a rectangle – when the Circles overlap at exactly the right position (the Golden Section or Divine Ratio dividing the Golden Rectangle), intersection of the Circles with the diagonals of the Squares generates 2 beautiful 4-leafed flowers – the Golden Flowers or “Truelove” pattern.

“Truelove” (or Paris quadrifiolia) is a European 4-petalled flower which in Medieval times had both a Sacred and Profane symbolism: sacred (for the Cross and for the Father, Son, Holy Ghost and Virgin Mary) and Profane (poisonous aphrodisiac, luck in love, and good luck from “4”). Thus in the raunchy “Miller’s Tale” of Chaucer’s Medieval “Canterbury Tales” , the love-struck clerk Absolon advances his “noble, knightly love” to the carpenter John’s adulterous wife Alisoun (naughty with student Nicholas) with love-promoting Truelove under his tongue (“Under his tonge a trewe-love he beer”).  Perhaps the 4-leafed aquatic fern Marsilia quadrifolia (water clover) had related significance for the Ancient Egyptians. Trueloves are amply scattered throughout my painting. 

“Truelove” as an implicitly Monogamous title could also be considered somewhat disingenuous given that the painting portrays an international variety of naked women (and indeed was abruptly described as “16 naked chicks” by a mid-twenties, feminist, cosmopolitan, professional Young Loved One female critic – however many of my other women friends love the colours and forms). Indeed this painting relates in this sense to paintings involving the choice by Man of the most beautiful woman in the world e.g. Peter Paul Rubens “The Judgement of Paris” (National Gallery, London) and Sandro Botticelli’s exquisite “Primavera” (Uffizi Gallery, Florence) in which a Man (Mars) studies a fruit on a bough, studiously ignoring half a dozen utterly gorgeous Botticelli females and unaware of Cupid about to release an Arrow of Love.     

Similarly, the intersection of the Circles in the Golden Rectangle yields the so-called Vesica Pisces construction that has a Sacred symbolism (the Gothic Arch of Christian churches and the Christian symbol of the Fish) and a Profane symbolism (the female vulva and lips, the male penis and male phallic obscenities such as bullets, bombs and missiles). This symbolism is also apparent in the painting. The REAL “shock” of the Da Vinci Code is not the unexceptional assertion (as in Dan Brown’s novel) of Jesus being married with children (a perfectly fit and indeed expected state for a rabbi) but the pre-Christian, Profane and sexual imagery implicit in the Golden Rectangle that is so intimately associated with Sacred Christian iconography (see MWC News ).

Previously MWC News has published accounts of my Mother and Child paintings “Manhattan Madonna” and “Sydney Madonna” that are inspired by Renaissance Italian Golden Rectangle-based  Madonna and Child paintings and have the fundamental message that the Beauty and Truth of Mother and Child transcend the greatest creations of Man (e.g. Manhattan and the iconic Sydney Opera House/Sydney Harbor Bridge man-made landscape) and the greatest evils of Man (such as the 9/11 atrocity that killed 3,000 people and the post-9/11 Bush Wars that are associated with 3.6 million excess deaths, mostly of Women and Children). “Truelove” explores the Beauty and Truth of Woman and shows that it is both Sacred and Profane. Make your own Choice – my favourite is the woman on the far Left Hand Side with the secret smile made so endearing by Princess Diana, the Queen of Hearts.

Dr Gideon Polya,  MWC News Chief political editor, published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and is currently writing a book on global mortality ---

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