Saturday, April 16, 2011

The Peaceable Kingdom with Two Olives


This is currently my favorite piece of art, bar none. It's a bit of a tongue-in-cheek spoof of the traditional interpretation of the book of Isaiah done by Edward Hicks in the late 17th/early 18th century. I know it may seem a bit odd, but something about this piece just strikes me as fundamentally mythological. Perhaps it is that manner in which the artist takes a social message and makes it just whimsical enough to appeal to the masses? Who knows? Whatever the case, this sure appeals to me.

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