Minotaur
signed and dated 1995 (right)
craypas on felt paper
21 1/2” x 27 1/2” (55 cm x 70 cm)

Revolting is the story, not the depiction of the ancient Greek mythology where “the son of Minos and Pasiphae (was) killed at Athens; to avenge him, Minos forced the Athenians to send a tribute of seven boys and seven girls every year ... to be thrown to the Minotaur ... half man and half bull ... until killed by Theseus.” With this foreground mythology, J. Elizalde Navarro depicted rapacity committed by creatures beyond the limits of the human mind. The raging reds (including the background), sharp-edged and pointed shapes, and pictorial clash of geometric shapes, plus the frontal depiction of the object of femininity, create emotive responses that are, by and large, heuristic.