The Great Debate
KRS James Cline
Oil on Linen
66”x70”
Original’s status: Available
Giclee print on canvass
24.5”x26” Price $1000
40.5”x 43” Price $2,050
S/N limited editions of 50
In a nod toward Picasso’s Three Musicians, we find a man embroiled in a Great Debate within
himself, to whom does his spiritual allegiance belong and masked by what public image?
Each of the three are represented by the symbols at their respective feet. The Monk is of the
realm of the heavens. His symbol is Infinity.
To the far left is a personality his polar opposite represented by the two small circles, which
in astronomical terms mean “180 degrees opposite”. The absolute opposite of Infinity. He is a
piggish brute believing he knows all things celestial but cannot actually see them for his lips
are pulled over his head.
In the center is the Mime, his symbol is that of earth and he is us. Though he mimics the posture of the Monk, with hidden hand he taps for more of the Brute’s gruel.
So the cryptic sentence reads: The Fallen World is greater than the Earth but less then the Infinite.
Finally, the Infinity Ball sails over the Debate as a comet, and depending upon when and where this ball is sunk, the game is finished. Thus proceeds the debate between the Mime, his brutish Muse and Eternity.
