The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas will be putting
on a display entitled, “Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible” through August 18.
The display features approximately forty paintings by the American artist
Forrest Bess (1911-77).
Bess’s paintings have apparent abstract expressionist
tones which were greatly influenced by Jungian psychology and its emphasis on dreams, archetypes
and the collective consciousness. Teaching himself to paint, Bess
incorporated the intense hallucinations he experienced as a child into his art
work. It was through fueling his dreams into artwork that Bess really became
interested in Jungian psychology.
Interested in learning more about Jungian psychology?
TAMU Press book, Finding
Jung: Frank N. McMillan Jr., a Life in Quest of the Lion (TAMU Press,
2012) by Frank N. McMillan III, features the story of Texas country boy and
Texas Aggie, Frank McMillan Jr., and his life-long quest for meaning inspired
by a dream lion. McMillan followed the lead of Carl Jung, the founder of
analytical psychology, and eventually established the world’s first
professorship to advance the study of that field. Bess's story also
figures into the story.
--Madeline Loving
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