Nose
Hand
Breath
Noé
Noah
Job12:9-10
"Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind."
La Baignade, Seurat
"On
the other hand, it was true that the crocodile emerged from the waters
like the sun god himself; that facing east it basked in the early
morning sun as though paying homage to the deity, and that it attacked
the fish which were commonly viewed as the sun's enemies according to
Egyptian mythological thinking."~~~Richard H. Wilkinson
Work
(1852–1865) is a painting by Ford Madox Brown that is generally
considered to be his most important achievement. It exists in two
versions.
"In England the most famous attempt was made by Ford Madox Brown in a picture called Work, begun in 1852. It projects the philosophy of Carlyle, who stands on the right grinning sardonically (with his friend Frederick Denison Maurice, the Christian Socialist). At the centre of his composition are the navvies, on whose labour all nineteenth-century prosperity depended, heroically strong, although, as always with Madox Brown, slightly grotesque. They are the men who made the Box Tunnel, and why they should be digging such an enormous hole in this quiet street in Hampstead I can't imagine. Round them are the idlers, elegant and fashionable, furtive and destitute, or merely naughty. Madox Brown looked at people, especially at cruel people, with an intense gaze which saves his work from the usual banality of social realism. All the same, this is descriptive painting, and as such, slightly provincial. But in France, at exactly the same time, there emerged two painters whose social realism was in the centre of the European tradition - Gustave Courbet and Jean Francois Millet."~~~Kenneth Clark: Civilisation. Ch13 Heroic Materialism
Chess: "Nose" "Hand" "Breath" "Noé" "Noah"
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