Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The painting of "The Fall of Icarus".



The painting of "The Fall of Icarus"...the painting that Dr Edwin asked us to search. Nice painting...but can you see how is it related to the story "The Fall of Icarus"?Try to look closely or perhaps zoom into the painting and you can see two legs jutting out from the water at your bottom right of the whole painting. Can you see it? These are the legs of Icarus who had just fallen into the water. Can you now see it? The implication of this painting is people carry on with their lives no matter what happens around them. Get it? As those people still doing their daily routines and not helping Icarus although he fell into the water. What a cold yet a realistic society portrays in this painting. A nice painting but a cruel one- to me.

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