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Sunday Dalí: The Madonna of Port Lligat (first version), 1949. Oil on canvas, 18½ x 15⅛ inches. The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.

Dalí’s turn towards Catholicism and interest in reusing the iconography of the Italian Renaissance are inextricably married to his reaction to the United States’s detonation of the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. Subsequent paintings depict the atomic properties of objects through dematerialization and by suspending the objects in space, demonstrating the divisibility of matter.1

This work is clearly influenced by Piero della Francesca’s Madonna and Child with Angels and Six Saints (1470-75) [image link]. Both Madonnas have their hands folded over the infant Jesus. Both paintings also have the iconography of an egg hanging from a seashell although Dalí inverted his shell in the manner of Carlo Crivelli. The shell is a reference to the god Venus, who Mary replaced with the rise of Christianity as the dominant religion in western Europe. The egg is symbolic of new life.2

It is striking to see that what appears to be Freudian iconography in Dalí’s work actually be directly lifted from the Renaissance masters. Further investifation of the Francesca work leads to more questions. Namely, why is Saint Francis (the man to the right of Mary) holding his ripped tunic open? And why is Saint Peter’s head bleeding?3 It all looks so fresh in Dalí’s painting, and yet, the ideas are centuries old.

CitadelGrad wrote:

The First Lady helped create a notorious program that dumped poor patients on community hospitals, yet the national media ignore the story. Imagine if her husband were a Republican.

The University of Chicago Medical Center has received a good deal of justly opprobrious press over its policy of "redirecting" low-income patients to community hospitals while reserving its own beds for well-heeled patients requiring highly profitable procedures. Substantial coverage was given to a recent indictment of the program by the American College of Emergency Physicians. ACEP's president, Dr. Nick Jouriles, released a statement suggesting that the initiative comes "dangerously close to ‘patient dumping,' a practice made illegal by the Emergency Medical Labor and Treatment Act, and reflected an effort to ‘cherry pick' wealthy patients over poor.

Oddly absent from most of the unflattering press coverage of UCMC's patient-dumping scheme is any mention of the role our new First Lady played in devising the program. A laudable exception has been the Chicago Sun-Times, which reported last August that "Michelle Obama -- currently on unpaid leave from her $317,000-a-year job as a vice president of the prestigious hospital -- helped create the program."

93henfan wrote:

CitadelGrad wrote:

Holy SHIT! Who are the two on the left?!?

MOAR!

CitadelGrad wrote:

93henfan wrote:
Holy SHIT! Who are the two on the left?!?

MOAR!

On the left is Princess Letizia of Spain. Next to her is Carla Bruni, the first lady of France.

CitadelGrad wrote:

93henfan wrote:
Holy ****! Who are the two on the left?!?

MOAR!

On the left is Princess Letizia of Spain. Next to her is Carla Bruni, the first lady of France.

93henfan wrote:

CitadelGrad wrote:
On the left is Princess Letizia of Spain. Next to her is Carla Bruni, the first lady of France.

Well then, hola and bonjour.

mainejeff wrote:I've never seen a woman with a large biscuit due to heredity......

Maybe some of you need to take another look at your wives, mothers and daughters.

Cap'n Cat wrote:

mainejeff wrote:I've never seen a woman with a large biscuit due to heredity......

Maybe some of you need to take another look at your wives, mothers and daughters.

Exactly.

Lady Obama is a superb female specimen.

Cap'n Cat wrote:

mainejeff wrote:I've never seen a woman with a large biscuit due to heredity......

Maybe some of you need to take another look at your wives, mothers and daughters.

Exactly.

Lady Obama is a superb female specimen.

andy7171 wrote:

Cap'n Cat wrote:
Exactly.

Lady Obama is a superb female specimen.

...with A LOT of junk in the trunk.

Cap'n Cat wrote:

andy7171 wrote: ...with A LOT of junk in the trunk.

Let's all get together when your mates and daughters are 47 and see if they have Kate Moss asses, OK?

Ivytalk wrote:

CitadelGrad wrote:
On the left is Princess Letizia of Spain. Next to her is Carla Bruni, the first lady of France.

On the far right is the The Maid.

CitadelGrad wrote:

Cap'n Cat wrote:

Let's all get together when your mates and daughters are 47 and see if they have Kate Moss asses, OK?

How old do you think Princess Letizia and Carla Bruni are?

Ivytalk wrote:

Cap'n Cat wrote:
Exactly.

Lady Obama is a superb female specimen.

Are you channeling Jimmy the Greek?

andy7171 wrote:

Ivytalk wrote:
Are you channeling Jimmy the Greek?

Are you saying Barry is the big black buck?

Cap'n Cat wrote:http://www.people.com/people/article/0, ... 91,00.html

High approval ratings, working on the right things, she is the best First Lady in modern times. Makes Conk FL's look like trolls.

Four more years!!



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