MY DECISION

I have decided on Marc Chagall's "The Artist and his Model" for a few very good reasons.

While "Hera" is very inspiring, I'm a very colorful person when it comes to paintings and for this project, you need to be interested in the piece of art for quite a while [at least that's my impression] and I might possibly lose interest in "Hera" and it's artist. Marc Chagall had, to me, a very interesting life, perspective, and style, and of course vibrant use of color.

On a deeper level, I can get so much more out of "The Artist and His Model" than I may be could get out of "Hera", which, when I think of the painting, I think of the Greek Goddess Queen of course, and then I get into religions and human beliefs. While I could go on and on about human culture and belief and the need to know why we are here and how we got here, I won't.

Personally, I would much rather do a rant on our perception of Beauty, as Chagall illustrates, and how we try to harness it and copy it and shape it and make it and essentially BE it. I would much rather think about the question What is beauty? than the question Why are we here? because the latter of the two questions might possibly have an ugly answer. Don't get me wrong, I don't shy away from the morbid or tragic. Not at all. But for that question, I don't even know what I believe the answer is, so I couldn't argue a certain perspective, and my cynical side wants to disprove everyone with their beliefs. But the question, "What is Beauty?", well, I definitely have something to say about that.

Plus, there are just as many perspectives, just as many different views, and the question itself isn't any simpler. Both questions are equally unlikely to ever have an answer, the difference is there's only one I actually want to try and find an answer for.