Friday, February 22, 2013

The Pegasus and the Babe


Looking for the right accent piece to hang above your drawing-room mantle or 1970s coffee table that you place Dungeon and Dragons on in your mom's basement?  Well, here it is!  This stunning oil on velvet is hung taut across a chic neo-gothic frame that will match any furniture your parents bought in the 1970s or you dug out of the trash of your local Salvation Army.

There are few creatures more majestic than the horse: a symbol of freedom that men and women both swoon over.  Yet, a WINGED horse is indeed even more majestic than the relatively commonplace and mundane flightless horse.  Rearing up and preparing for flight, this Pegasus screams to your house guests "I LOVE FREEDOM!" and "FLYING RULES!" and "I SHOP AT FLEA MARKETS!".

Is there anything more beautiful than a winged horse?  Well, yes, a hot babe.  Is there anything more beautiful than a hot babe? Well, yes, a NAKED hot babe!  A lesser artist would be unable to create a balance in a painting of a Pegasus, as there is hardly a more beautiful sight.  But by counterbalancing the majestic winged-pony with a radiant and totally nude babe, the viewers eye is forced to take in the entirety of the beauty, rather than to focus on a single beautiful object.

Yet, the painting is far more than a stunning and beautiful piece of fine art; it is also contains a deep symbolic meaning as the beauty offers up her flower to the Olympian steed: a meaning so clear that it needs no explanation.

Can you put a price on this one of a kind masterpiece?  Yes, $58.

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