Best. Painting. Ever.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Just curious, what made it take half a hour?

Reading all the little commentaries. Reading up on some. Trying to find out what the artist's ideas are, how widely spread they are. Fascinating.

Do you know that this is LDS art? (Some would argue, LSD) It is both subculture and mainstream.


The 'liberal news reporter', along with the professor clutching Darwin's Origin Of Species and the judge weeping over Roe vs. Wade, all huddled next to Satan, turning their backs to Jesus and the constitution.
That's the beauty about art, eh? One painting says as much as a thousand page study.



Edit: The artist does work from a template. Check this:

http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/artwork...rtpiece_id=319

Edit 2: I am still fascinated. That's another half hour wasted. The 'art of reassurance'. Fantasy/new age, religious art, landscape/pastoral, assuring cityscapes.
Peculiar, is that McNaughton does not feature persons in his re-assurance works. Only in his policital and religious art. But they feature dead people* only. He is that disappointed in the modern world, that he does not even paint living persons. 'Grandma's rocking chair':
http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/artwork...rtpiece_id=165

*Then again, Moromons have some rather idiosyncratic ideas about the link between the death and the living.