Re-Interpreting Antiquity

Since major human themes do not change with time there is great value in looking to antiquity for guidence for creating powerful images. For example, compare Dr. Jeffery Mim's painting to Michelangelo's painting of Jonah. Mims was able to achieve such a powerfully dynamic figure due to what he took from Michelangelo's painting. The bottom half of Mim's figure is pretty much exactly the same as the bottom half of Jonah and the only thing that Mims changed was the direction that the torso twists. Instead of the torso twisting down and to the left (as Jonah does)the torso on Mim's figure twists down to the right. While some will dismiss this type of re-interpetation as cheap or unoriginal it has aided in creating a painting with a similar dynamism to that of Michelangelo's works.