Friday 4 December 2009

‘Lament for Icarus’ – Herbert Draper

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A lament for a fallen hero.

5 comments:

Art illiterate said...

PC, why did the artist make the fallen hero in his painting as a black dude surrounded by white women rather than a white dude surrounded by black women?

What's the likely vision behind that? I am curious, since I am no artist myself.

frank black said...

He flew too close to the sun hence the tan.

Lew said...

PC, a very sly critique of the Herald headline which reads "Tiger scandal: How an American hero crashed to earth".

L

Greig McGill said...

I don't think that's what it's here for, Lew.

Allvitalherbals said...

I like this picture this picture is so cute.

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