Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It is traditionally interpreted as a depiction of the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus (known as Saturn in Roman mythology) eating one of his offspring. Fearing a prophecy foretold by Gaea that predicted he would be overthrown by one of his children, Saturn ate each one upon their birth. The work is one of the 14 so-called Black Paintings that Goya painted directly on the walls of his house sometime between 1819 and 1823. It was transferred to canvas after Goya’s death and is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
Goya depicts a large figure feasting on a human form. The figure’s head and part of the left arm have already been consumed. The right arm has probably been eaten too, though it could be folded in front of the body and held in place by the larger figure’s thumbs. The larger figure is on the point of taking another bite from the left arm; as he looms from the darkness, his mouth gapes and his eyes bulge widely. The only other brightness in the picture comes from the white flesh, the red blood of the corpse, and the white knuckles of the larger figure as he digs his fingers into the back of the body.
Various interpretations of the meaning of the picture have been offered: the conflict between youth and old age, time as the devourer of all things, the wrath of God and an allegory of the situation in Spain, where the fatherland consumed its own children in wars and revolution.
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People on a tightrope :solidarity: Trans people in the shower
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What an absolute shithole country
fuck landlords
fuck cars
My commute is through a heavily urban area. Go through multiple 5 direction intersection, cross over multiple train lines. The stress of everyone doing these correctly everything is ambient sure, but it really comes to a head when psychopath in a suv wont let you merge into a lane, or the led light bulbs, or people driving insanely fast in this busy area. They let anybody drive, and they think this is a good idea. Ontop of that, cars are now a new level of expensive and the idea that id be in a situation where id have to buy a new one, just so i can go to work??? I’m so over how stupid, greedy and dangerous it is.
