Miguel,

Wow. The second one

I aspire to do surrealist painting. I have the ideas but not yet the skill.

This is beautiful traditional landscape painting with a great message and concept.

I'm very impressed. It gives me inspiration.

Roger

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Miguel,

Wow. The second one

I aspire to do surrealist painting. I have the ideas but not yet the skill.

This is beautiful traditional landscape painting with a great message and concept.

I'm very impressed. It gives me inspiration.

Roger

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Miguel,

Wow. The second one

I aspire to do surrealist painting. I have the ideas but not yet the skill.

This is beautiful traditional landscape painting with a great message and concept.

I'm very impressed. It gives me inspiration.

Roger

Hi Roger,

I agree with you on all terms. As to the skill, it will eventually come. I guess it all consists in trying and never giving up, plus never being totally satisfied with our results (without exaggerating of course, as it would be self-defeating). Which of course I say to myself as well.

Have you seen the boats inside the goblet? I believe their presence is an attempt by Thomas Cole to represent Atlantis, which according to Plato was both a lake and a continent or, rather, a lake inside a continent, the two of them called indistinctly Atlantis by Plato.

I have an idea that Thomas Cole maybe inspired Salvador Dali mainly through his Titan's Goblet. In fact, this great work of art may have given him the very idea to do surrealist painting. What do you think?

I hope this belief of mine is not too far-fetched.

Miguel

You could well be correct.

It certainly inspires me.