"Ganymed" (poem: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749–1832, music: 1817, Franz Schubert, 1797–1828)

Performed by Hannah Bein '22

“Ganymed,” a poem set by Schubert, tells the story of the young girl Ganymed being seduced by the Greek god Zeus’s creation of the beauty of spring. For me, María Berrío’s The Augur similarly communicates this connection between humanity, spirituality, and nature, as different species of birds, emphasized by their outsized depictions, swirl around a woman’s head. I’m particularly drawn to the care Berrío used to portray the setting around the woman—the individually laid out blades of grass and bird feathers highlight the beauty and importance of the landscape. 

Lois Wu ’23