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Title/Number: fool / el loco (mad-man)
Picture: http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/4d/80/fde9b2c008a0141de3ba8010.L.jpg
First Impression: a crazy person , hallucinations, visions , confusion, surreal
Description: a man with white/blonde hair holding his face to his hands , completely naked. to 1 side brown wood-like patterns, to the other many shapes colors and textures , in the middle , red.
Immediate Like/Dislike & Why: I like how this is more similar to the crazy person image that I as a Spanish speaking person is used to , instead of just a happy/stupid person. It reminds me of the earlier decks where the fool was ussualy a hobo, a person with mental problems that was ussualy seen as possessed by demons , or as having holly madness. they couldnt understand it and for this they mocked him.
gender: male.
Colors: red , brown and gold are predominant but it has many many other colors.
source painting and artist intent: philosophy;
Klimt described the painting as follows: "On the left a group of figures, the beginning of life, fruition, decay. On the right, the globe as mystery. Emerging below, a figure of light: knowledge." Critics were disturbed by its depiction of
men and women drifting in an aimless trance. The original proposal for the theme of the painting was "The Victory of Light over Darkness", but what Klimt presented instead was a dreamlike mass of humanity, referring neither to optimism nor rationalism, but to a "viscous void
Symbols: chaos , nature , nakedness. Madness.
Story [Intuitive]: the fool of the town , the very moment the visions started , he was tormented by them . are they real? Not even he knows, no one else can see them, nobody else understand’s them , Their opinions don’t matter to him anymore , he has lost all conection to the real world, and after all if they suddenly started to hear things or see visions , wouldnt they also covertheir faces in fear?
anecdote: I was eating at a park with a friend there were some hippies selling stuff on the floor nearby, then came around an old man, a hobo I guess who looked weird had no shirt on and whose belly made us uncomfortable s: he was even very similar to the Klimt fool.
He approached the garbage bin right next to us. searching for food most likely, then a man in a suit who seemed in a hurry passed by, he took the change from his pocket and placed it on the man's hand at who he had not even looked at
The old man examined the coins on his hand as if he had never seen something like it, he squinted his eyes. and drew his face nearer to his hand ( instead of drawing the hand to his face) and then when he finnaly seemed to realize what it was. He turned his hand ,dropping them on the bin and walked away light heartedly.
my friend and I were kind of shocked at this , we didn’t understand it , one of the hippies nearby unsuccessfully tried to retrieve the money from the bin , then left and tried again a second time later.
when we were done eating and since he didn’t achieve it we tried our hand too and we DID find the money , but we also realized at what he made us do!
HE made a fool out of us! XD
He searched for food a basic need; and he didn’t cared what anybody though, that’s why he was on the garbage
we in change did care what people thought and we still did the same! We didn’t even need the money, But we couldn’t understand why he'd throw it away! we were searching for money on the garbage can Even more foolish than he was!
We were the actual fools.
Numerology Reference: none, 0, infinite potential , outside any number.
Keywords: the unknown , shameless , otherworldly , beginning ,imagination, unrestrained.
Possible Meanings: the soul before enlightment, a newborn child entering the world of experience , the principle of anarchy , instincts , caveman , the moment madness begins
Oh I'm so silly we aren't supposed to post all our findings here...just journal them! This is the support thread to discuss the decks we are working with. That's why I was asking if we should start our own thread. I still think this would be better suited for the study group area. Sorry guys!
