found a video of someone talking about this painting and they described it as depicting a monster filled with menace hungering for his next victims and it shook me bcs i have always seen it as a profoundly tragic painting of a creature trapped in a cruel cyclical hell
I’ve noticed that my friends who are already TT professors/on track to be tend to have pretty “lowbrow” habits, as in watch reality TV and play Nintendo and don’t read many novels, while my friends with good taste are largely half-employed and cursed to wander the earth