Zhang Xiaogang big family 1996 painting

Zhang Xiaogang big family 1996 paintingZhang Xiaogang A Big Family paintingBernhard Gutmann Study of a Woman in Black painting
replaced those of exaltation, and Baal was surrounded by angry men demanding to know the reasons for this oblique, this most byzantine of insults. At this point Baal took off his absurd turban. "I am Baal," he announced. "I recognize no jurisdiction except that of my Muse; or, to be exact, my dozen Muses."
Guards seized him.
The General, Khalid, had wanted to have Baa! executed at once, but Mahound asked that the poet be brought to trial immediately following the whores. So when Baal's marry him, had been sentenced to death by stoning to punish them for the immorality of their lives, Baal stood face to face with the Prophet, mirror facing image, dark facing light. Khalid, sitting at Mahound's right hand, offered Baa! a last chance to explain his vile deeds. The poet told the story of his stay at The Curtain, using the simplest language, concealing nothing, not even his final cowardice, for which