we saw an art exhibition on Klimt and his contemporaries in Belvedere palace in Vienna. unlike most art exhibitions, this one attempted to penetrate into the psychology of the painters, especially their love and sex life and how they interpreted love and sex and their impact on mental health (as understood in their times). very few people realise that love, and sex especially, is not so much a symptom of desire as it is a reflection of mental and intimacy needs, and that sex can be immensely destructive especially when it breaks trust which again is not just that but a huge and irreconcilable rejection of a person, or when love is unrequited or incestuous. but apparently these painters understood that. 

I do believe that monogamy in man and animals has evolved because it gives us a strong sense of security, of being wanted and loved no matter what, for better or for worse, it keeps us sane.

my favorite was Egon Schiele, for his very bold, colorful, somewhat grotesque, and beautiful (in their courage to occupy space and emotion on the canvas) paintings. you have to see them to understand what i am saying. the grotesqueness can sometimes seem ugly even, but I have always found ugliness and brokenness beautiful, what other people find beautiful i don't always, and in fact the words beauty and ugly thus both carry equal attraction and wonder for me.

remind me to get a couple posters/prints of Schiele's works to put up in my bedroom back home.