Celestial Blessings in Cubist Form

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A Cubist painting, with a palette of beige, amber, gray, blue-gray, brown, and off-white fragmented geometric shapes. In the upper center, a haloed celestial dog-like being with a human-proportioned body and human hands reaches out as if offering a blessing, his body radiating a golden light, creating a stained-glass like backdrop. The dog-like being has one large, circular eye and one smaller, angular eye. Above the dog, in the upper-left corner of the painting, there are words that read, "BEHOLD, HE COMES WITH THE CLOUDS, AND EVERY EYE WILL SEE HIM, EVEN THOSE WHO PIERCED HIM, AND ALL TRIBES OF THE EARTH WILL MOURN OVER HIM, REVELATION 117."

Below the dog, a multitude of people, also rendered in fragmented geometric shapes, are looking up with expressions of awe, fear, and lamentation. Some have their hands raised in prayer or supplication. Buildings consisting of many segmented houses or towers with arched windows, make up the lower-right of the background. Horses with riders, also cubist and segmented in shades of gray and black, are visible in the