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.
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3rd period
this is “Saturn Devouring His Son” by Francisco Goya created in order to depict Greek myth of the Titan, who fears that he would be overthrown by one of his children, so he ate each one of his children upon their birth.
this painting illustrates postmodern element of magical realism and paranoia through the action illustrated in the painting. the thought of his children overcoming him has led him to such extremes that he's resorted to eating his own son out of fear.