Why did this painting make Dostoevsky shit his pants?
>>25250361goofy aah chin :skull:
>>25250361Before the internet images had a much stronger power.I remember as a kid being genuinely scared of certain paintings by Goya and of WWII photographs.Now I'm fully desensitized to pretty much every image. I still appreciate the beauty of painting but the shock aspect is no longer possible.Maybe it's an effect of growing up, but I don't think so. I think it's in large part, if not fully, the result of having seen millions of images on the web, images of all kinds. Cinema and television contributed to this too, of course. In Dosto's time it must have been really shocking to see images which today we consider ordinary.
>>25250361JEBUS!!!
>>25250361I think because (especially Orthodox) Christianity has a strong Platonic bend, it think its easy to abstract Jesus to an abstract principle, Christ, as king in heaven, the word, one third of the trinity, etc. It sometimes makes you forget that he was also a flesh and blood man that died a horrible, painful, humiliating death. I think this painting is very good at pulling you back into that reality and the existential dread that comes with it: that the all-powerful monotheistic god is laying there, a sickly-green corpse, mangled, thin, exhausted by suffering, with empty eyes and open mouth looking at nothing.
>>25251145>I remember as a kid being genuinely scared of certain paintings by Goya and of WWII photographs.You're right though, and I think it comes down to novelty. When images are so prevalent and even creative imagery is everywhere, it loses somethingI wonder if this is why a lot of fundamentalists (think Amish and Taliban) ban imagery and promote destructive iconoclasm in extreme cases. Maybe it's to prevent desensitization and preserve novelty to the realm of the divine
>>25251162I love black beans. I love beans in general other than peas. Won't be long before I get to graze fresh green beans from the garden for breakfast, throw in a few tomatoes, and handful of strawberries and a pepper and there is no better breakfast. There is something lost with the lack of cooking, I love cooking breakfast, but grazing breakfast fresh from the garden is one of the greatest pleasures in life.
>>25251168Shut up with the this faggy mother hen bullshit.
>>25251173>t. gardenlet
>>25250373You're 30 and this hasn't been funny for at least 6 months now
>>25251168That's a pretty fucked up combination of foods
>>25251168Sounds nice. That is exactly what humanity evolved to do, and everyone shitting on your post is alienated from their natural state.
>>25251200>everyoneYou mix together strawberries, beans, and peppers? Come on that's not right.
