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"The Discovery of America By Christopher Columbus" By Salvador Dali

Now You gotta have a Dali at least once in an Art site. I like alot of Dali's work. I really enjoy "The Discovery of America By Chirstopher Columbus" for one reason besides. The picture is so busy with images. I don't know where to start but I slowing scan over everything. To me, Dali makes the discovery of the new world a holy thing ordained by God. The painting to me looks as if the army of heaven is watching over Christopher Columbus to m ake sure discovers the new world.


"The School of Athens" by Raphael

The School of Athens is my favorite. The painting screams intellect. The painting represents a meeting of all the great minds of the time. Through research some of the identified people in the painting are: Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Pythagoras, Euclid, Alcibiades, Diogenes, Ptolemy, Zoroaster and Raphael. Plato is in the center pointing his finger to the heavens. Next to Plato, his pupil Aristotle with his extended hand in an elegant horizontal gesture. This picture brings me back to ancient showing me an ideal of what the times were like. In the right corner, between two men you can see a gentleman looking out from the painting at the viewer. The man is a self-portrait of Raphael. A nice website to see the School of Athens broken down into smaller more detailed pictures can be found by Clicking Here. 		Click for Comparison School Of Athens


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"At the Edge of The River" by William Bouguereau, French , 1825-1905

This painting is astounding to me. I have seen the actual painting at the Clark Art Institute over is Massachusetts. At first glance the picture really didn't make me say or feel anything. Once I really started looking at the painting I saw how real the girl looks. I felt I was looking at a photograph and not a painting. When looking at the painting I am staggered by the skill used to create such a painting. I have seen some other William Bouguereau paintings at the Munson Williams and Proctor Institute and they were just as amazing or more so.


"Snakecharmer" by Jean-Léon Gérôme, French , 1824-1904

For me the painting is about one thing, the wall. Kind of an odd thing to say about a painting that a wall dominates and defines a painting. When I look at the painting I look at the characters for a while and wonder what their stories would be but I keep returning to the wall. The blue wall is shining with glares from an unseen light source. The detail of the wall sets the entire scene to make sure you are in a different land with different customs such as snake charming. 		Click for Comparison SnakeCharmer


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Saturn - Goya

"Saturn Devours his Children" by Francisco de Goya

This painting is on my long list of favorite paintings not because I love to see it. This painting is on my list because I can't stand to look at it. This painting is one of the very few paintings that actually scares me. The painting makes you feel as if you just came aroud the corner and interrupted Saturn in the middle of his devious plan to devour his children. The painting depicts a myth. The myth roughly follows: Saturn understood that one of his children would rise and dethrone him as king of the gods. To prevent this Saturn decides to eat his children. Everyone gets eatin except for one. The one child wraps a rock in a lot of meat and tricks Saturn into eating the rock. Saturn believes he succeeded and will remain in power. The child grows up and becomes powerful enough and finally ends Saturn reign. The child avenged his siblings. The child's name was Zeus.


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