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Title
The Myth and Misnomer of DISCOVERY
Artist
David G Wilson
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas With Frame
Description
I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to do the study for this painting. I was allowed to copy the classical portrait of Columbus, the copy of which must differ a certain percentage from the original. I decided to produce my mind's eye perception of what I saw and therefore my interpretation of the historical account of what occurred then. I was instructed by the authorities at the museum to be polite to anyone asking questions. While painting, a gentleman came up and asked what I was doing since I was painting a seascape while observing a portrait. I explained that I was projecting into my painting what my mind's eye perceived. He asked me what it meant and I gladly explained that in history class, we were taught that Columbus "arrived" in the Western hemisphere with three ships, the Nina, The Pinta and the Santa Maria. However, I noted that there seems to have been one boat that arrived there before him and that proved that Columbus had "NOT" discovered anything, but that he had lost his way to India. This meant that he could not claim to have discovered new lands when there was someone there before him. The gentleman was quite disturbed by my explanation, left and a short while later I was asked to leave the museum. This was the definition of my painting and it meant that the dead figures that constituted Columbus' hand were covered with blood. The golden frame indicates that where there is a quest for gold, there is bloodshed.
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February 25th, 2012
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Santi Goma Rodriguez
I think too that Columbus was not the first European who arrive to America, but his travels are very important because how all that affect the history. Blood are always in each step of the empires. And the curious is Most of Spanish people not live better after the "American business". It happen the same with the British Empire and the most of the British people. And Columbus was just a piece of a very big and complex machine that others control.