Cowboys and indians!

[thistlechaser]

I have no clue what's going on in this art. Okay, I understand part of it, but... buh?

Note: Link is somewhat-to-mostly not work safe. Five paintings with tiny little naked people doing things to other tiny little naked people, but one picture has a somewhat larger naked male person.

The wild, wild west I learned about was nothing like this.

Picture #5 boggled me the most. Is that Superman on a horse?

If the art had been better, the link wouldn't have been worthy of posting. But the subject matter combined with it had me snickering (and boggling) so much.

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Sort of FFXI-ish: When you dream about your fellowship NPC's body armor resetting back to stage one, it's a sure sign you're thinking too much about it.

Comments

[fealu-bryne.livejournal.com]

...Uh.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Exactly my reaction.

[kawaru.livejournal.com]

Since he's holding a cross, I think it's supposed to be Jesus on the horse. O_O My grandmother had a painting of Jesus wearing robes about that color too. Weird pictures.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha, that's even stranger! (I found the site at work, so I didn't want to keep the images open for long. I missed that he was holding a cross.)

[desant-chan.livejournal.com]

Actually he's a parody of Napoleon Bonaparte in one of his more popular paintings (propaganda poster, really), done by Jacques-Louis David (http://www.abcgallery.com/D/david/david43.jpg). It's possible the artist is trying to show the paralells between the missionaries and the Emperor who thought of himself as a god.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I had thought that horse and pose looked really familiar.

[kalin-nestar.livejournal.com]

LOL..and you really have to lean in to get a double take.
We have a fine art museum in Dallas that is all art like that. Minus the gay.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

If it wasn't minus the gay, I might have to take a trip down to Dallas. :P

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

This is one of those times where I bless the fact that Firefox has a zoom-in extention. The subject matter is hot and all (especially #2, heh), but daamn, the artist does a better job with all the details he puts into his landscapes. Those trees are nice.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yay, glad you liked the happy trees!