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I agree beautiful example.
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Pillar of the Community
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Good looking coin, Joe. So, I guess the idea of this depiction is that the quadriga is coming at us, right? But I gotta say, it sure seems like two pairs of horses running in opposite directions.
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Would you like to try to draw this Bob? As an artist yourself I'd be curious about the die you would have created as indeed these are going in two directions, but if you were right about to be run over by the quadriga and between the center horses I imagine it would look like they are running in two directions away from you right before Sol's chariot ran you over in his wheels. The horses are splitting to get around you it seems.
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08/29/2019 11:34 pm
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Would you like to try to draw this Bob? Depict a quadriga, Joe? Been there, done that. Though, admittedly, not from the roadkill perspective. Many years ago, in an intentionally very stylized (and strange) oil painting depicting the Buddha's "Discovery of Suffering" - some terrible pics of some of the painting's details below. Unfortunately I never got good pics before selling it.    |
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That is a beautiful picture Bob. Your talent is amazing.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Artistic license, not lack of equine control.
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Wow Bob, that is amazing work you do! Just curious, was Buddha watching the scene and he was shocked by the suffering of the old man? (Curious about the title.)
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Bedrock of the Community
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Horses and chariot remind me of Brandenburg Gate.
A rather enduring artistic interpretation.
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Joe, the prince Siddhartha, who would become the Buddha, is in the chariot, and is telling his charioteer Channa to pull the horses to a stop. This is the prince's first venture out from the palace (he snuck out). In the palace he had been raised in luxury, completely sheltered, protected, and ignorant of the realities of life. This is his first exposure to aging, disease, and suffering (and, ultimately, death) - knowledge of which his father had tried to keep from him so that he wouldn't renounce his inheritance. (When Siddhartha was born, a fortune teller had told his father that the boy was destined to do so - to give up his position and worldly goods - and so his father, the king, did what he could to see that wouldn't happen - he basically made his son a pampered prisoner in the palace) So this trip out is the pivotal story that sets Siddhartha on the path toward enlightenment. Wonderful story. Weird painting - an anomaly for me. An attempt to depict an Eastern theme in a more or less Western pictorial vocabulary (I was teaching Renaissance art history at the time - this is from a long time back). For a Christian narrative with no quadriga - but in a style I'm much more comfortable with - here's Francis preaching to the birds (if the link works), inspired by a trip to Assisi: https://boblangnas.com/paintings/1/6Sorry to hijack the thread, Joe. Edited by Kamnaskires
08/30/2019 07:20 am
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Thanks! I admit, when I wanted to learn "history" I sadly focused from Alexander the Great onward but selfishly ignored so much eastern history such as this. And my only real learning of such was reading H.G. Wells Outline of History where he at least was worldly enough in the very early 20th century to try to do it justice. But you are not at all high jacking this thread as these coins we post are all some artists mind at work. Below is a coin from Sicily I got a kick out of showing Jesus really huge compared to Mary and I wondered if the artist realized this and intentionally did it.  |
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Wow, that's a quirky depiction. I like.
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