#2006: Comparative
This Comic's Cast:
I took a Golden Age of Spain art history class back in college. The artist I ended up writing my paper about was El Greco, considered one of the greats of the Spanish Renaissance. His art style, though, was very strange, consisting of elongated, almost skeletal figures. It struck a chord with me.
Through out the class, though, I kept hearing from my teacher, "scholars are unsure why he drew the figures the way he did. Was it a perception issue, did he need glasses, or was there something else going on with him?" But, the answer is simple: El Greco started off as a Byzantine bas relief artist.
If you go back and look at Byzantine art from that period, the figures are very elongated, rather thin. It fits his style perfectly. I totally could have written a thesis about it, if I'd ever wanted to go for a higher degree (I didn't and I don't).
...So anyway, yeah, there's a long explanation you probably don't care about at all but does shed a lot of light on this very specific comic.
Through out the class, though, I kept hearing from my teacher, "scholars are unsure why he drew the figures the way he did. Was it a perception issue, did he need glasses, or was there something else going on with him?" But, the answer is simple: El Greco started off as a Byzantine bas relief artist.
If you go back and look at Byzantine art from that period, the figures are very elongated, rather thin. It fits his style perfectly. I totally could have written a thesis about it, if I'd ever wanted to go for a higher degree (I didn't and I don't).
...So anyway, yeah, there's a long explanation you probably don't care about at all but does shed a lot of light on this very specific comic.
When evil spreads across the land, and darkness rises and the monsters roam. When the creatures of the night make beautiful music, and the things that go bump in the night go bump with greater enthusiasm. When the world is in peril and is in need of a hero...
These guys are, sadly, the best the world can hope for. These are the adventures of the heroes of CVRPG. They mean well, they try hard, and occasionally they do the impossible...
They actually do something heroic.
