Thursday, 8 January 2015

August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck 'Anguish' (c1878)

I just discovered this painting online. It attributes human emotions to the animals, but not in a chocolate-box, slushy, sentimental sort of way. The crows lurk menacingly in anticipation of a lamb dinner. They are the something-for-nothing brigade. They exploit the vulnerable. They remind me of my mother's second set of in-laws.

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