On the Marvels of Humanity

[Dark Lightning]

Eh, your post was a multi-tool! 

[No one]

A Swiss Army post?

[Asmodean]

Why is he looking upwards?

Other people beat me to it and did a fine job.

What is the story the painting tells you?

You could go with the "earthy" looking for spiders in the corner or the more pretentious-sounding looking from darkness towards the light, symbolising this, that, hope, despair and all sorts of euphemisms for mortality - or something else entirely. That is the beauty of a well-done piece of art. It needs not tell the same story to everybody, or if it does - with different degrees of individually-informed nuance.

[MarcusA]

Why is he looking upwards?

Other people beat me to it and did a fine job.

What is the story the painting tells you?

You could go with the "earthy" looking for spiders in the corner or the more pretentious-sounding looking from darkness towards the light, symbolising this, that, hope, despair and all sorts of euphemisms for mortality - or something else entirely. That is the beauty of a well-done piece of art. It needs not tell the same story to everybody, or if it does - with different degrees of individually-informed nuance.

He is a marvel looking for a miracle.

[MarcusA]

Why is he looking upwards?

Other people beat me to it and did a fine job.

What is the story the painting tells you?

You could go with the "earthy" looking for spiders in the corner or the more pretentious-sounding looking from darkness towards the light, symbolising this, that, hope, despair and all sorts of euphemisms for mortality - or something else entirely. That is the beauty of a well-done piece of art. It needs not tell the same story to everybody, or if it does - with different degrees of individually-informed nuance.

He is a marvel looking for a miracle.

I may have been too harsh, perhaps he's just old.

[billy rubin]

looks like he fell in a hole

[MarcusA]

looks like he fell in a hole

He is not shrouded in darkness. The light is very much upon him. If I am not mistaken, this is a picture of a religious person. Faith has its faults but it is not without hope. Without hope, man is nothing.

[MarcusA]

True heroics are performed by people, what is more heroic than the maintenance of hope?

[MarcusA]

Man is not without hope. He is without insight.