"Not sure if I can say this is my single
"favorite" - I have too many things I like. But I think of this as
one of the most fascinating pieces of art, for many reasons: huge scale,
staggeringly beautiful composition of horrific depiction, it's place it history,
both for the real story it depicts and for it's artists break with traditions.
It came to my attention in 1985 because an Irish folk-punk group called The
Pogues used it as cover art on their seminal album "Rum, Sodomy and the
Lash," which title is itself an interesting Winston Churchill quotation.
He once quipped the British Navy tradition was 'nothing more than rum,
sodomy and the lash.'"
The Raft of Medusa - Wikipedia
Theodore Gericault - Wikipedia
