Jake Apostoles Blog #5

The saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.” is put to use in the genre of visual analysis. A picture can provide deep meaning to some individuals and mean something completely different to someone from a different viewpoint. The painting of an eggshell split in half with the sun in between was created by surrealist painter Vladimir Kush. The painting takes the classic style of egg cooking, called sunny side up, into the world of surrealism. The egg is incredibly large, the height of many humans at its most wide, and is split straight down the middle. The egg sits on a beach with an ocean behind it. The suns placement and appearance infer that the painting is made to capture the time period of sunrise, so the painting is facing east if the rules of the earth still apply in this surrealist world. The sun sits right above the water, making the rays of light stretch and reflect in the style that is described as god’s fingers in Homer’s The Odyssey. The egg itself is so large that it must hold an animal that is the size of a building even at birth. This animal could grow to be even bigger, so it may terrorize the people depicted in the painting like Godzilla. The people shown in the painting are on scaffolding working on the eggshell, possibly inspecting or repairing the egg. A single person can be seen walking away from the water that comes in between the eggshells like the runny yolk that comes when you cook an egg sunny side up. The man is walking away from some sort of old fashioned canoe, which appears to be filled with water. The man is not clothed, so the civilization that he is a member of may not be very advanced, or have a belief that clothing is necessary.