I know it's kitsch ~ WW1 Angel & fallen soldier

I know it is really kitsch, however the customer is always right! Angel & fallen Tommy.....

Thanks for looking

soren

 

Soren,

This excerpt from Will R. Bird follows your thread pretty well.

Will R Bird - Ghosts

 

Canuck -
It happens - chap I know saw a likeness to the Virgin Mary in a shell burst - after a few seconds She was replaced by the chaps Mother - who woke suddenly in the UK - saying that "something" had happened to their son - he was lying in a field wounded !

Cheers

 

Well done, as always, Soren. One of my favourite stories.

cheers,
phil

 

A little further

 

Brilliant art yet again Soren.

And Canuck, thanks for the link. Pretty interesting stuff.

 

a little further

 

are you might have something, having said that angels are not earthly beings so it could ba a vacant type

 

I dunno, the expression looks ok to me. Angels are supposed to be beautiffic (unless angels of vegence) so I would imagine "compassion" is quite a difficult emotion to paint without looking "simpering".

And Sergei Eisenstine did a famous experiment where he filmed a peasant looking blankly at the camera and then intercut it with images of food and (I forget the othe things) anyway, when the film was viewed it turned out that the viewer put expressions onto the face that werent there (hunger, sorrow, whatever). It seems a blank face can emote quite well depending on its surroundings!