#angus og

[mythologypaintings]

Angus Og, God of Love and Courtesy, Putting a Spell of Summer Calm on the Sea

Artist: John Duncan (Scottish, 1866-1945)

Date: 1908

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Description

In Celtic mythology, Angus Og is the god of youth, love and poetic inspiration, described in the Celtic revivalist magazine, The Evergreen as ‘the ever young, the lord of love, of music, of song’. Traditionally described as having singing birds circling his head, in this picture by Duncan he is shown with wings of a swan. Duncan was drawn to the Celtic Revival movement after his return from Chicago in 1904, producing works that were largely inspired by Celtic myth and legend.

[totenkopfmotte]

Angus Og, God of Love and Courtesy, Putting a Spell of Summer Calm on the Sea, by John Duncan,  1908.

John Duncan's Angus Og is a delicate beauty, wrapped in a golden ribbon. His skin and hair look soft to the touch; his voice and manner must be equally pleasant. If this was a contemporary painting it would be considered too scandalous today, we modernlings are decidedly more prudish than the Edwardian British intelligencia. There are some clashing view points in this image itself; Edwardian British society considered the body of a young man as asexual; young men could swim nude in public or go skinny dipping in rivers and no one thought anything of it, while women and girls were forbidden to act this way. However the subject is an ancient male god of love, beauty and fertility, the Celtic equivalent of Frej. Frej, much to my disappointment, is regularly depicted as roided and bearded, despite him representing the beauty of Scandinavian men like Bjorn Andresen and Olaf Andersen. Where are the long, white limbs and thick, golden curls of European youths to be found in contemporary media? Gods and symbols of male desire have become too aggressive and harsh for my tastes, if not erased altogether. Frej is just as important a god as Thor and Odin, but he is hardly present in modern adaptations of Germanic Myth. Even his sister, Freja, now, is increasingly absent or treated with contempt.

[77bears]

Angus Og, God of Love and Courtesy, Putting a Spell of Summer Calm on the Sea. (John Duncan, 1908) Oil on canvas / Chalk on paper

[galleryofart]

Angus Og, God of Love and Courtesy, Putting a Spell of Summer Calm on the Sea

Artist: John Duncan (Scottish, 1866 - 1945)

Date: 1908

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Description

In Celtic mythology, Angus Og is the god of youth, love and poetic inspiration, described in the Celtic revivalist magazine, The Evergreen as ‘the ever young, the lord of love, of music, of song’. Traditionally described as having singing birds circling his head, in this picture by Duncan he is shown with wings of a swan. Duncan was drawn to the Celtic Revival movement after his return from Chicago in 1904, producing works that were largely inspired by Celtic myth and legend.

[crazymiraclecat]

Celtic Mythology Aesthetic - Aengus god of love

[eliot-rose]

Hey loves! Here is a link to the Patreon I am starting to fund my Deities of Witch Craft coloring book project!  I have included some pictures of the line-work of the few pages I have!

[tighearnmhas]

Entrance of Brú Óengus, late 1800′s

[the-busy-ghost]

Angus Og getting randomly murdered by his harper is such a cop-out... I don’t know who was writing the script for history in the late fifteenth century but that is a shit end to a character arc that was just beginning to get interesting, and I would like to make a formal complaint...