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The Dionysian comes from Dionysius, the god of wine and fertility, who was worshipped with drunken orgies in the woods at which nonparticipants were ripped to pieces.
The late Versace, with his Miami colors, outrageous impracticality, and explicit sexuality, is the Dionysian.
Once rulers understand the political implications of Dionysian revelry, it gets turned to rotten ends.
The Apollonian line begins with Washington Irving, the Dionysian with James Fenimore Cooper.
The division seems like a version of the one drawn by Friedrich Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy between Apollonian and Dionysian art.