"Soft Power" Pencil Sketch on Paper HP LoveBux

This is a pencil sketch for an upcoming painting. The composition of angles horizontals and ovals make a pleasing composition independent of the subject matter. The image itself is the ritual sacrifice of motor vehicles in a giant public arena. Like the Iberian bullfights harken back to the ancient minotaur of the Bronze Age, the destruction of mechanical chariots by a gasoline powered behemoth evoke the ritual combats of the Roman Colisseum. Empires use rituals of this type as a ceremonial expression of their power in the form of public entertainment.

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