Master Tarot
1996
Amerigo Folchi
Switzerland
Art Medium:
Coloured pencil.
Description:
The idea behind this deck is to present episodes of Jesus Christ's life and the various people who were important to his story, through a set of tarot cards. The Majors are renamed and only to a small extent reflect the established tarot structure. 0 The Comet, I The Son of Man, II The Angel, III The Mother, IV The Father, V The Temple, VI The Prophet, VII Magdalen, VIII Temptation, IX The Disciples, X The Miracle, XI Forgiving, XII The Whip, XIII The Supper, XIV Love one another, XV The Kiss, XVI The Scream, XVII Here and Now, XVIII Celebration, XIX The Spirit, XX Apocalypse, XXI The Galaxy. In the Minors Folchi playfully quotes from a number of well known paintings including Picasso's 'Guernica', 'American Gothic' by Grant Wood, and Brueghel's 'Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind'. The Minor pips are numbered 1-40 while the supposed Courts are unnummbered.
