Traditional Art
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The Creation of the World (Die Erschaffung der Welt) - author unknown; book painting on parchment; circa 1270; Austrian National Library
This was created at a time when European societies found a new appreciation for the language of mathematics. Thus [the Christian] god is depicted as constructing the world itself using the tools and precision of mathematics.
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L'Ange du foyer ou Le Triomphe du surréalisme (1937) - Max Ernst
Variously translated as "The Angel of Hearth and Home" or "The Fireside Angel", subtitled: "The Triumph of Surrealism."
> Ernst painted The Triumph of Surrealism shortly after the defeat of the Spanish Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. In this conflict, Spanish fascist leaders were supported by Germany and Italy in their victory. Ernst's goal was to depict the chaos that he saw spreading over Europe and the ruin that fascism brings to countries. > > ... > > retitled by Ernst in 1938 as The Triumph of Surrealism, "a despairing reference to the fact that the surrealists with their Communist ideas had been unable to do anything to resist fascism."
https://www.max-ernst.com/the-triumph-of-surrealism.jsp
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The Last Judgment - detail of a damned man (1541) - Michaelangelo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Judgment_(Michelangelo)
