Art has its trials as well as its triumphs. It is powerless to assert itself against the sordid interest of everyday life.  Surrealism is a style of art in which the reality of the dream, or the subconscious mind, is seen as more real than the surface reality of everyday life. Its reality is a higher reality. The creation a work of art is a representation of the artist moving through the hot desert, experiencing triple digit heat and trying to reach his family. This also represents the defeat of fascist people, and him leaving the battle field, in victory, but barely alive. If he does not make it to his family, it marks the death of liberty, a reality he was unwilling to think of as being real. This is a struggle between life and death.  Nothing for him could be more real than that struggle. An honest man is one of the few great works that can be seen for nothing.

One of the most powerful kinds of implied line is a function of sight, the direction the figures in a given composition are looking. This work represents the Virgin Mary, and she is trying to unify the Worlds of the divine and the mortal.Among the heirs of Art, as at the division of the Promised Land, each has to win a portion by hard fighting: the bestowal is after the manner of prophecy, and is a title without possession. There is a great deal in the feeling of art which must be acquired. Art is an old language with a great many artificial affected styles.Like a signature, art expresses powerful emotions; he is a deeply anguished and creative genius. Many of these photographs help us to understand the expressive energies released in this creative outburst. In the image above, life and death collide, and they are connected by the arm of the father, delivering his seed to the World, in hopes of salvation.

If anywise interested in art, a person must be difficult to please who cannot find fit companionship among a crowd of persons, whose ideas and pursuits all tend towards the general purpose of enlarging the World’s stock of beautiful productions. Representing the effects of light is at least as important in creating believable space as a perspective. The effects of the atmosphere on the appearance of elements in a landscape is one of the chief preoccupations of this work of art and is responsible for formulating the rules we call atmospheric or aerial perspective. Briefly, these rules state that the quality of the atmosphere (the haze and relative humidity) between us and large objects, such as the Moon, changes their appearance. Objects further away from us appear less distant, often cooler or bluer in color, and contrast between light and dark is reduced.

The Heavenly light symbolically offers them nourishment, which contrasts with the gluttonous Worldly activity going on below on Earth, where a dogs knaws at a bone, and cats search for left overs (symbolizing overconsumption and draining the economy of resources.) However, the light symbolizes the spiritual World, and darkness our Earthly home.  A picture, however admirable the painter’s art, and wonderful his power, requires of the spectator a surrender of himself; in due proportion with the miracle which has been wrought. An artist must be man and demigod.