Image of the Week 022

In Picasso's drop-curtain for the ballet Parade, the monkey at the top of the ladder is emblematic of the Hermetic Mercury. Associated with the devil and with God's monkey (simia Dei), it alludes to the paradox of the agreement of opposites.

The blue ball at the bottom left represents the cosmos.

Pegasus symbolizes the synthesis of heaven and earth.

Pablo Picasso, Drop-curtain for the ballet Parade, 1917.