But later in that decade, in tune with abstract painting of the time generally, Krasner turned to a more colorful, even gaudy palette, as in the garishly pink and purple "Gaea" (1966), and to more boldly defined forms, as in "Green Fuse" (1968), with its white egg shapes and wide arcing bands set off against a deep blue background and accented by vehement splashes of red and green.
The Attic tradition regarded the Gorgon as a monster produced by Gaea, the personification of Earth, to aid her sons against the gods.
According to Hesiod, four primary divine beings first came into existence: the Gap (Chaos), Earth (Gaea), the Abyss (Tartarus), and Love (Eros).
The creative process began with the forcible separation of Gaea from her doting consort Heaven (Uranus) in order to allow her progeny to be born.
The crudity is relieved, however, in characteristic Greek fashion, by the friendly collaboration of Uranus and Gaea, after their divorce, on a plan to save Zeus from the same Cronus, his cannibalistic sire.
Gaea gives birth to Uranus (Heaven), the Mountains, and Pontus (the Sea); and later, after uniting herself to Uranus, she bears many other deities.
In the plays of Aeschylus, they were the daughters of Nyx; in those of Sophocles, they were the daughters of Darkness and of Gaea.
In Greek mythology Cronus was the son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth), being the youngest of the 12 Titans.
In Hesiod the Cyclopes were three sons of Uranus and Gaea Arges, Brontes, and Steropes (Bright, Thunderer, Lightener)—who forged the thunderbolts of Zeus.
Other features include "Gaea Girls," about Japanese female wrestlers (March 23 at 7 30 p.m ., and Sylvester Stallone's finest achievement as a director, the 1978 "Paradise Alley," which will be introduced by the documentary filmmaker Robert Greene ("Fake It So Real") at 7 30 p.m. on March 31.
The subjects of the festival's other films range from the brutally rigorous training of professional Japanese female wrestlers ("Gaea Girls") to the internal struggle against antigay policies of the Boy Scouts of America ("Scout's Honor").
