Picasso

[Gibbon]

Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858 by William Dyce :: artmagick.com


What do you make of this ? A lifelike painting but has a deep meaning and is very relevant to it's time. It was painted in 1859, something very significant happened that year.

Yes you can google, but just have a think. As the painting is small here are some clues.

1. They are collecting fossils ( Pegwell beach in dorset was famous for them)
2. There is a passing comet in the sky.
3. You are meant to notice the many stratas in the rock.

Now you couldn't get this in a photo especially the mechanoly.

[Mich the Tester]

Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858 by William Dyce :: artmagick.com


What do you make of this ? A lifelike painting but has a deep meaning and is very relevant to it's time. It was painted in 1859, something very significant happened that year.

Yes you can google, but just have a think. As the painting is small here are some clues.

1. They are collecting fossils ( Pegwell beach in dorset was famous for them)
2. There is a passing comet in the sky.
3. You are meant to notice the many stratas in the rock.

Now you couldn't get this in a photo especially the mechanoly.

origin of species

[Gibbon]

origin of species

Close but's its more to do with the change in how humanity is viewed once the bible story no longer holds up. It's actually about religous doubt and the brevity and insignificance of human life. The comet is the brief flash across the sky whilst the fossils and rock statra are the immensity of time.

Interestingly enough the publication of the Origin of the Species wasn't as controversial as some modern commentators would have use believe. A lot of people were coming to the same conclusion from different angles and one of them was the fossil link. The church view was that fossils were animals that hadn't made it into the Ark and drowned in the ensuing flood. This was contested though when a full fossil of a dinosaur version of a dolphin was found; why would it drown in a world of water?

[vetran]

Its the shoes?

You liked the little doggy?

No wedding ring?

Go on tell us


This is incredible in the flesh so to speak. Photo does not do it justice.

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This is one of my favourites, spooky yet uplifting

http://www.aaronartprints.org/images/Paintings/4411.jpg

[Churchill]

Et in Arcadia Ego

I like this one...

The Shepherds of Arcadia

[cailin maith]

Its the shoes?

You liked the little doggy?

No wedding ring?

Go on tell us

All of the above