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Jeste, u pitanju je ekspedicija ser Džona Frenklina, i njen neuspeh kao posredna inspiracija za ovu sliku. Skandalozni izveštaj podneo je Dr Džon Rej, koji je na osnovu svedočenja Inuita došao do zaključka da su Frenklin i njegovi ljudi pribegli kanibalizmu kao poslednjem izboru zarad preživljavanja. Dikens je javno osudio ovakav zaključak, govoreći da, parafraziram, čestit i pošten britanski mornar nikada ne bi pojeo drugog čestitog i poštenog britanskog mornara.
Link ka ovoj debati: http://www.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/cann.html
O naslovu: http://www.englishclub.com/ref/esl/Sayings/Quizzes.....es_915.htm
Citat:One of the iconic images of the Arctic Sublime, it was painted by an artist who had never travelled to the north, and whose best-known paintings were of royal dogs and ponies -- Sir Edwin Landseer -- in the strange twilight of his career. When in 1981 it was shown in the United States as part of a Landseer retrospective, New York Times art citic Hilton Kramer singled it out as the most stunning of his works, comparing it with other darkest moments of the Victorian age:
"'Man Proposes, God Disposes'" is Landseer’s 'Dover Beach' and with that painting, at least, he joins the ranks of those disabused Victorian prophets whom we still have ample reason to admire and heed."
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So how did such a seemingly staid and sober artist such as Landseer, who, though renowned for his animal subjects, had always remained with the lines of domestic propriety, come to paint such a monstrous scene? In 1864, McClintock's news of the demise of Sir John Franklin's expedition was still fresh in the air, as was the controversy, ignited ten years earlier, over Dr. John Rae's evidence of cannibalism among Franklin's men. Such dark matter was inconceivable as the subject for a serious painting -- since Géricault's famous "Raft of the Medusa" (1818-1819) tastes, shall we say, were greatly changed. Maritime tragedies were meant to be seen through a spyglass dimly, distantly awesome and only alluded to by natural features; the storms of human malfeasance could cloud horizons but not confront the viewer's eye. Frederic Edwin Church had struck just the right tone three years earlier with his "Icebergs," which contained a lone, broken mast as a synecdoche of Franklin's tragic end: man made mast.
There's a mast in Landseer's painting too, with tattered remnants of a royal ensign clinging to its side -- but it's what comes before the mast that astounds. Two polar bears, their muzzles rippling with carniverous delight, are sitting down to a feast of dead explorers' bones. The bear on the right tosses a bone from a human ribcage, while on the left a second bear rips at the ensign. At that bear's side lie a broken telescope and lens-cap, its shattered state a metaphor of the blasted vision of the dead.
http://visionsnorth.blogspot.com/2009/06/man-proposes-god-disposes.html
"Čovek snuje, Bog odlučuje" bi bio adekvatan prevod naziva slike. Zanimljivo je da se slika nalazi u Kraljevskoj Holovej kolekciji, i izložena je u prostoriji Londonskog univerziteta u kojoj se održavaju ispiti. Tokom ispita prekrivaju je, kako ne bi uznemiravala studente. 
DreamingStar ::Sad cu da pustim malo i druge ljude da se igraju 
Nećeš da se stidiš, nego ćeš postaviti novo pitanje. Izvol'te. 
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(i da napomenem da ovu sliku deca možda ne bi trebalo da gledaju, može uznemirujuće da deluje)
