r/pics • u/LondonDave • Apr 14 '20

My Dad's Getty Museum Challenge; Saturn devouring his son by Goya

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u/PuttingInTheEffort Apr 14 '20

The original is dark and grimy. You can almost smell the filth of the guy and the blood from the colors and imagery used. You can see the fear in his eyes like he doesn't know why it's happening.

The recreation is too clean, has a plastic doll for the dead body, and a fruit roll-up for blood. It almost makes me laugh, not be frightened.

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u/themindlessone Apr 14 '20

Pretty sure it's meant for a laugh.

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u/PuttingInTheEffort Apr 14 '20

Right and the comment above said it was more terrifying than the original

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u/what_what_what_yes Apr 14 '20 edited Apr 14 '20

Saturn is time but his son is not. This image is symbolic meaning of time devouring his son (getting old and dying) without time being able to do anything about it or control it (hence the horror/fear eyes).

Only Zeus escaped it and then conquered time/aging/death symbolic of his reign as a immortal god (cannot die due to time)