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| The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum John Martin c.1821 (Picture 1) |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
Here are two paintings what seems quite strange. At the above, the text is a painting by the John Martin, what is portraying the destruction of the Pompeii and Herculaneum (Picture 1) and in the middle of the text (Picture 2) is a portrait what is painted by Thomas Cole, and the name of this portrait is The Course of Empire Destruction. I used the same portrait in the text before, and suddenly I thought that there was something strange in that painting.
Here are two paintings what seems quite strange. At the above, the text is a painting by the John Martin, what is portraying the destruction of the Pompeii and Herculaneum (Picture 1) and in the middle of the text (Picture 2) is a portrait what is painted by Thomas Cole, and the name of this portrait is The Course of Empire Destruction. I used the same portrait in the text before, and suddenly I thought that there was something strange in that painting.
The thing that feels very strange, is similar to both paintings, they seem to be painted like the observer or the painter would be in some kind of cave. So the question is why those cities or things that are trapped in those paintings happens in the room like the cave? I once saw the drawing on the surface of the planet Venus, and there were painted the "U"-shape horizon because the massive pressure would distort the way how the light travels in the atmosphere, and that would cause the effect when the observers will see, that the horizon would seem like curved as the shape of "U".
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| The course of the Empire Destruction Thomas Cole 1836 (Picture 2) |
But when we will return to those two paintings, I must say that the painting about the surface of Venus has been made when the massive pressure and poisonous atmosphere of that planet have been detected. Those paintings have been painted at the 19th. century, and I once thought that have they innovated the SciFi writer Isaac Asimov for the novel "The end of the eternity".
In the end of the novel, the main character was sitting with his family in the "time cave". That might mean that Asimov meant that the main character would sit in the cave and used the electric singularity to jump in the fourth dimension. This thing might be very interesting for considering, when we think, why those two painters have been painted their paintings like they were been in the cave.
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