Pretty Sweet Picture! What Do You Think?

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I did a quick search in an effort to insure this hasn't already been brought up and found nothing, so my apologies if I missed it, and kindly just let me know.

A friend of mine found this picture (LINK) somewhere out there on the web a while back and I thought it was cool and made it my background. I just recently (today) jumped onto Google to see if I could find information on it, and found a lot of people trying to name everyone in it, but not much more than that.

I just think it is really interesting and I assume it is also extremely symbolic, although I have so far been unable to decipher much of it. I just thought I would post it and let everyone go crazy. Talk about who's in it, what it means, any info you know of it, or anything else you can think of. I guess I just thought it was interesting and wanted to share!

Thanks,
 
it's definitely an interesting painting. i haven't figured out why certain people are facing a particular way. and why is mother teresa the darkest figure in the painting?
 
Blech! Anyway... no mention of native (North or South) American figures/cultures? Very glaring omission...
 
ullanta said:
Blech! Anyway... no mention of native (North or South) American figures/cultures? Very glaring omission...
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I doubt it was a purposeful display of racism. Whoever mastered it probably looked for figures that most people would recognize and these were the big shots. I don't think there was a bias or an omission, although I could be wrong, as I did'nt make it.
 
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That is an interesting picture.

Notice how most of the influential technology, places, objects & animals are also displayed.

There are of course many (debatable) omission too through. (For example; the emission of most /all(?) major religious figureheads.)

Also note that Alfred E Newman has been photo-shopped into the version with names.



Is that Socrates or Archimedes 2nd from the right on the bottom row?


Cool to see Steven Spielberg in there. :)

- Mikko
 
The artist's choice in women subjects is... erm, interesting.

Is Joan of Arc in there? She would be higher on my list than Monroe, Shirley Temple and Holly Golightly (granted, Hepburn might be the most beautiful woman who ever lived).

Odd, yes, that Mother Teresa is buried in the shadows. Ms. Temple Black's ambassadorship to Czechoslovakia notwithstanding, the other women are famous... but influential?

Course, in a work like this, it might just be a good stunt to put someone saintly in the shadows.

I vote... schlocky, gimmicky bordering on lame.

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