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functioning. The subjective experience of her
own feminine nature makes the artist use the
models of femininity.

These elements reflect the dynamics of
human corporealit y and psyche subject
to transformation and development. The
archetype embraces the divine element that
originates a rational being, i.e. a human.

In psychology, an archetype is a symbolic
formula containing original images and
behaviours. With its emotional charge, it
is a reflection of instinctive reactions to
particular situations strengthened by the
experience of past generations. Between
the archetype of a woman-Aphrodite or the
Madonna and a femme fatale, there are many
other archetypical, female incarnations and
behaviours. Body, corporeality constitutes
the space of the painting. For Barbara Palka-
Winek, this is one of the main archetypes.
No matter if artists choose the metaphysics
by Philo of Alexandria or psychoanalysis by
Carl Gustav Jung at the further stage of their
work, corporeality will still be the materia
prima for them. Female and maybe also male
pheromones – Scents function in this bodily
space, this is the place to present the Mental
Imago as an archetype of feminine mentality.

The unearthliness of a figure presented in
an ephemeral and ethereal way in the white,
fading space of the Archetype of a Woman can
be perceived in an archetypical dimension in
which the truth about a woman is expressed.

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