Hi all,
I have had this image http://img716.imageshack.us/i/lionunicorn.jpg/ on my harddisk for some years and do not remember where I got it from. I found it recently searching my computer for pictures. A friend of mine, who liked it too, suggested to get it in a larger format.
However, I have no idea what the meaning of the picture is - lion and unicorn point to the UK, but why is the unicorn writing and the lion tearing up books? Before I hang something on my walls, I'd like to make sure I understand its meaning. I would greatly appreciate your help finding the artist or guessing the meaning of it. (I also noticed an artists "signature" in the lower left corner, but I can't see it clearly.)
Thank you for your thoughts,
Sturmfalke
Help me identify an artwork
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Sturmfalke
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Re: Help me identify an artwork
Well I ran it through Tineye and got zero hits on the picture, so there goes the most obvious solution. I don't recognize it either.
A scientist once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the tortoise standing on?'
'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the tortoise standing on?'
'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'
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Re: Help me identify an artwork
It looks like it might be a political cartoon... possibly about the UK (from the crowned Lion)
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Sturmfalke
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Re: Help me identify an artwork
Thanks for the effort! I just looked up Tineye - I had no idea such a service existed. I mainly used picture search engines, but "lion and unicorn" is guaranteed to get a huge number of hits, and the picture makes it difficult to narrow them down.adam_grif wrote:Well I ran it through Tineye and got zero hits on the picture, so there goes the most obvious solution. I don't recognize it either.
Lion and unicorn are the UK's symbols, the lion stands for England, the unicorn stands for Scotland. Some cartoons show them fighting (like in the nursery rhyme), but I can't make any sense of this picture. If it is a historical reference, it eludes me - Scotland creating something, England destroying it?barnest2 wrote:It looks like it might be a political cartoon... possibly about the UK (from the crowned Lion)
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Re: Help me identify an artwork
I knew the Unicorn stood for somethingLion and unicorn are the UK's symbols, the lion stands for England, the unicorn stands for Scotland. Some cartoons show them fighting (like in the nursery rhyme), but I can't make any sense of this picture. If it is a historical reference, it eludes me - Scotland creating something, England destroying it?
thanks.Maybe Scottish legislation that was ignored here? I remember something like that happening a few years back
"Seriously though, every time I see something like this I think 'Ooo, I'm living in the future'. Unfortunately it increasingly looks like it's going to be a cyberpunkish dystopia, where the poor eat recycled shit and the rich eat the poor." Evilsoup, on the future
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