Extra Credit
This is Paul Bond's Lao Tzu's Dream. (Do you know what Lao Tzu's name means? Old Teacher. ) Yeah, I'm a total STAN. Look at how he uses hyper-realism (the stones' texture) but utterly surreal elements...you know, the tree & such...knock the viewer a little off balance. Plus, it's a little mockery of the whole hipster cairn-building fad. He's good.
Do you want to see a few more? Check out Magical Realism Art by Paul Bond and enjoy!
Kachan 6th
Painted based on the Nazi Germany bombing of the Basque town of Guernica, Spain, in April 1937, Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" shows the misery of the destroyed town through the indiscriminate killings of hundredths of women and children. The element of Maximalism is evident within the enormous canvas painting as it is filled with captivating abstract work which depicts the reality of the day the bombing happened. The reality in which people were caught up and killed. I'd like to think that the size and chaos shown in the picture are based on the gravity of the issue.