Madonna Without a Child; oil on board by Ralle CC-3.0-SSA
I can zoom in to examine the smallest details. I can look up information about the picture itself from both Wikipedia and the worlds finest art museums. If anything is known about the artist I can find that information too.
How fortunate I am to live in a time when a thirst for knowledge can be satisfied so easily.
To all the art historians of the world whose research is out there on the internet, I say thank you. I was unable to study this subject in college, but I am neck deep in it now because of your efforts.
And now, my original post.
(Via Wikipedia) Rallé, also known as Master of the Town of Consuls (MTC), is an American artist whose work has most recently been shown in the Meisel Gallery[1][2] and the Bruce R. Lewin Fine Art[3] in New York City. His paintings have accompanied several articles in the magazine Omni, and appeared as covers of several books. Rallé’s work has also been featured in Time Life Books,[4]Esquire, Penthouse, Gulf-Commentator, Toronto Life, Graphics Annual and American Illustration 3.[5]He published an autobiography in 2003, which won the 2004 Sappi European Printer of the Year gold award.
Viewing art inspires my personal creativity as much as listening to music or reading does. The eye of the artist sees things from a different angle, is inspired by things we might at first see as mundane or inconsequential. This is also true about literature, and music.
For me as an author and would-be poet, the world is comprised of myriad different genres, styles, and interpretations of the diverse forms of art. I think this is because all art, whether created of words, paint, images, or sound is filtered through the mind of the artist, photographer, composer, or author and is interpreted by the mind of the beholder.
Inspired by what I behold, I become a creator.
The late Surrealist Artist, René Magritte, said, “The searching intelligence sharpens when it Sees the meaning in poetic images. This meaning goes with the moral certainty that we belong to the World. And so, this actual belonging becomes a right to belong. The changing content of these poetic images tallies with the richness of our moral certainty. It does not happen at will, it does not obey any system, whether logical or illogical, rigid or fanciful.”
Quote from Literary Hub: Poetry is a Pipe: Selected Writings of René Magritte © René Magritte September 29, 2016
Selected Writings of René Magritte, Copyright © 2016 by Kathleen Rooney and Eric Plattner, University of Minnesota Press
Quote from Rallé (Artist) Author: Wikipedia contributors / Publisher: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
Life in the Realm of Fantasy 
So true — we are lucky to live in a time where a click and a scan yields treasure. I do miss my childhood and youthful hours spent in a library with books all around me, and riffling through the card catalog.
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I loved haunting the library, but I love the ease of the eBook and the compactness of my Kindle. And only here, on my computer, can I find the works of the great artists all in one place, and each one researchable ♥
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In the future (or past, on some worlds), all madonnas will be without children, and some will be made of plastic but their cries of pain will sound like bird chirps, because they will have not mastered the audio effects in the artificial intelligence features. Sad but true.
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