Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi,
Zhang An, Discussing the Divine Comedy
with Dante, 2006. Who can you spot? Some of the most famous names in Man's
history gather together for the ultimate dinner party.
Oι 103 εικονιζόμενοι στον πίνακα θα μπορούσαν να είναι οι προσκεκλημένοι σε ένα μεγάλο δείπνο ιστορικών προσωπικοτήτων από τελείως διαφορετικές εποχές στην ιστορία της ανθρωπότητας.
Ο
Ιωσήφ Στάλιν συνομιλεί με τον Λεονάρντο ντα Βίντσι. Λίγο πιο πέρα ο Γουίλιαμ Σαίξπηρ
περιστοιχίζεται από τον Έλβις Πρίσλεϊ και τον Βόλφγκανγκ Αμαντέους Μότσαρτ. Σε
μια άλλη αναπάντεχη συνάντηση ο Μωυσής βαδίζει δίπλα στον Κομφούκιο, ενώ ο Πελέ
επιδεικνύει το ταλέντο του δίπλα στον Αδόλφο Χίτλερ.
Και
ο μοναχικός Λέων Τολστόι βρίσκεται στο ίδιο τραπέζι με τη βασίλισσα της Αγγλίας
Ελισάβετ Β Δ και τον πρόεδρο των ΗΠΑ Αβραάμ Λίνκολν.
Και
φυσικά, στον πίνακα εμφανίζεται πλήθος ασιατών καλλιτεχνών και πολιτικών,
λιγότερο γνωστών στον Δυτικό κόσμο, αλλά προσφιλών στην κουλτούρα των τριών
ζωγράφων του πίνακα.
Στην
πρωτότυπη σύνθεση συνυπάρχουν όχι μόνον μεγάλες προσωπικότητες της παγκόσμιας
ιστορίας, αλλά και μνημεία του πολιτισμού όπως οι πυραμίδες της Αιγύπτου ή
εμβληματικά αντικείμενα του τεχνολογικού πολιτισμού, όπως το αυτοκίνητο και το
γραμμόφωνο. Ο πίνακας μοιάζει με ένα τεράστιο πάζλ.
Τιτλοφορείται
«Συζητώντας τη Θεία Κωμωδία με τον Δάντη»
και ολοκληρώθηκε το 2006. Πρόκειται
για έργο τριών ελάχιστα γνωστών ζωγράφων από την Ταϊβάν, του Ντάι Ντούντου, του
Λι Τιέζι και του Ζανγκ Αν.
Οι
τρεις καλλιτέχνες δεν άντεξαν στον πειρασμό: απεικόνισαν (και) τους εαυτούς
τους στο περιθώριο του πίνακα, ακολουθώντας μια συνήθεια αρκετών ζωγράφων της
Αναγέννησης.
This extraordinary
painting by little-known-Taiwanese artists Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi and Zhang An (who
appear in the top right of the picture), which also features some Chinese
communist leaders and poets little known outside Asia, has become the latest
internet hit - with people fascinated by the challenge of trying to identify
all 103 figures. Completed in 2006, it is titled Discussing The Divine Comedy With Dante and seems to be a metaphor
for our celebrity-obsessed world. So how many can you recognise? - Answers
below!
1. Bill Gates, Microsoft founder
2. Homer, Greek
poet
3. Cui Jian,
Chinese singer
4. Vladimir Lenin,
Russian revolutionary
5. Pavel Korchagin,
Russian artist
6. Bill Clinton,
former U.S. President
7. Peter the Great,
Russian leader
8. Margaret
Thatcher
9. Bruce Lee,
martial arts actor
10. Winston
Churchill
11. Henri Matisse,
French artist
12. Genghis Khan,
Mongolian warlord
13. Napoleon
Bonaparte, French military leader
14. Che Guevara,
Marxist revolutionary
15. Fidel Castro,
former Cuban leader
16. Marlon Brando,
actor
17. Yasser Arafat,
former Palestinian leader
18. Julius Caesar,
Roman emperor
19. Gen. Claire Lee
Chennault, WW II U.S. aviator
20. Luciano
Pavarotti, singer
21. George W. Bush,
former U.S. President
22. The Prince of
Wales
23. Liu Xiang, Chinese
Olympic hurdler
24. Kofi Annan,
former UN Secretary General
25. Zhang An, the
painter
26. Mikhail
Gorbachev, former Russian leader
27. Li Tiezi, the
painter
28. Dante
Alighieri, Florentine poet
29. Dai Dudu, the
painter
30. Pele, Brazilian
footballer
31. Guan Yu,
Chinese warlord
32. Ramses II,
Egyptian pharaoh
33. Charles De
Gaulle, French general
34. Albert Nobel,
Swedish chemist who founded the Nobel prizes
35. Franklin
Roosevelt, former U.S. President
36. Ernest
Hemingway, American novelist
37. Elvis Presley,
American singer
38. Robert
Oppenheimer, U.S. physicist
39. William
Shakespeare, playwright
40. Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, composer
41. Steven
Spielberg, U.S. film director
42. Pablo Picasso,
Spanish painter
43. Marie Curie,
physicist and pioneer of radioactivity
44. Zhou Enlai,
first Premier of the People's Republic of China
45. Johann Wolfgang
Von Goethe, German writer
46. Laozi, Chinese
philosopher
47. Marilyn Monroe,
American actress
48. Salvador Dali,
Spanish painter
49. Dowager Cixi, former
ruler of China
50. Ariel Sharon,
former Israeli Prime Minister
51. Qi Baishi,
Chinese painter
52. Qin Shi Huang,
former Chinese Emperor
53. Mother Teresa,
Roman Catholic missionary
54. Song Qingling,
Chinese politician
55. Rabindranath
Tagore, Indian poet
56. Otto Von
Bismarck, German statesman
57. Run Run Shaw,
Chinese media mogul
58. Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, Swiss philosopher
59. Audrey Hepburn,
actress
60. Ludwig Van
Beethoven, German composer
61. Adolf Hitler,
Nazi leader
62. Benito
Mussolini, Italian fascist leader
63. Saddam Hussein,
former Iraq president
64. Maxim Gorky,
Russian writer
65. Sun Yat-Sen,
Chinese revolutionary
66. Den Xiaoping,
Chinese revolutionary
67. Alexander
Pushkin, Russian author
68. Lu Xun, Chinese
writer
69. Joseph Stalin,
former Soviet Union leader
70. Leonardo Da
Vinci, Italian painter
71. Karl Marx,
German philosopher
72. Friedrich
Nietzsche, German philosopher
73. Abraham
Lincoln, former U.S. President
74. Mao Zedong,
Chinese dictator
75. Charlie
Chaplin, British actor
76. Henry Ford,
founder of Ford motor company
77. Lei Feng,
Chinese soldier
78. Norman Bethune,
Canadian physician
79. Sigmund Freud,
Austrian psychiatrist
80. Juan Antonio
Samaranch, former International Olympic Committee president
81. Chiang Kai
Shek, Chinese general
83. Leo Tolstoy,
Russian novelist
84. Li Bai, Chinese
poet
82. The Queen
85. Corneliu Baba,
Romanian painter
86. Auguste Rodin,
French artist
87. Dwight
Eisenhower, former U.S. President
88. Michael Jordan,
U.S. basketball player
89. Hideki Tojo,
former Japanese Prime Minister
90. Michelangelo,
Italian Renaissance painter
91. Yi Sun-Sin,
Korean naval commander
92. Mike Tyson,
American boxer
93. Vladimir Putin,
Russian Prime Minister
94. Hans Christian
Andersen, Danish author
95. Shirley Temple,
American actress
96. Albert
Einstein, German physicist
97. Moses, Hebrew
religious leader
98. Confucius,
Chinese philosopher
99. Ghandi, Indian
spiritual leader
100. Vincent Van
Gogh, Dutch painter
101. Toulouse
Lautrec, French painter
102. Marcel
Duchamp, French artist
(Osama bin Laden,
founder of al Qaeda, is behind George W. Bush, no 21)
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