Mi Corazon (My Heart)

Available in a set of
Limited Edition Fine Art Prints,
printed on heavy weight, acid-free, rag paper, numbered and signed by the artist.

Limited Edition of 150 prints.
Print Size: 15" wide x 20" high
Gallery Price per Print = $110.00

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Arte de Eros also offers
a full line of Fine Art Cards.

Select images are printed on acid-free, rag paper and then mounted on archival stock. Each art card is an authentic, collectible piece of art, signed by the artist, and comes with matching envelope.

Arte de Eros
Valentines Cards

        Mi Corazon (My Heart)                 All of My Heart

Size: 5" wide x 7" high
Price: $7.00 per card, or a set of 5 cards for $30.00.

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To select from the
full line of Fine Art Art Cards,
please visit our Online Store

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Plus…

A Valentines Portrait Special….

COMMISSION YOUR PORTRAIT
for Valentines Day

Special Low Price of only $150.00!
GIFT CERTIFICATES available.

By appointment only.

Please contact the artist directly, at (323) 601-8604

Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14. It is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending candies, flowers, or cards. The holiday is named after two early Christian martyrs named Valentine, though since that time, it has become associated with romantic love.

An alternative theory originates from the story of Saint Valentine, who upon rejection by his mistress was so heartbroken that he took a knife to his chest and sent her his still-beating heart as a token of his undying love. Hence, heart-shaped cards are now sent in tribute to passion and suffering.

Valentine symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid, the original of who was known by the ancient Greeks as Eros.

The original Eros, one of the oldest of the androgynous Greek gods, was not some mischievous boy shooting his toy bow and arrows at the grown-ups on Valentine's Day, but, rather, an awe-inspiring universal force, which, as the Greek Hesiod wrote, "unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and men."

Michelangelo Caravaggio's Cupid

The androgynous love goddess Aphrodite, who some think was Eros' mother, was said to have been "born from the foam which boiled up when the severed genitals of the sky god Uranus were thrown into the sea." It doesn't take much of a leap to understand foam boiling up as semen, and the severed genitals as the spent erection, and, as a result of such an orgasm the mind is cast into the sea of an undifferentiated state of consciousness - what the medical scientists call the "sudden temporary nervous collapse and transient brain inhibition."

Indeed, Robert Heath, a neurologist at the Tulane Medical School found that the experience of orgasm corresponds with a massive electrical discharge in the septal region of the limbic system, - the brain's emotional center - located in the right or "primitive" part of the mind. It is no wonder boundaries dissolve, out of which arises the transcendent energy of love.