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Introduction
Examples of Masterpieces

The images in this Part 1 of The Educated Wrestler Society website represent a small sampling of the treasures of western art.  Many of the images have a wrestling connection, although in some cases the website designers had to wrestle with metaphors to make the connection. 

The following three well known masterpieces will introduce the educated wrestler (i.e. “you”) to this Website of Wisdom

Leonardo da Vinci

This sketch was made by the always-inquisitive Leonardo in the year Columbus sailed the blue.   It is based on ideas about human proportions developed by a Roman architect named Vitruvius.  As wrestlers we look at the piece and see an athlete in a circle, and we recall that the referee will grant our opponent a point if we step outside the circle.

 

Raphael

Along with Michelangelo and Leonardo, Raphael was considered to be one of the masters of renaissance art in Florence.  In this piece Raphael pays tribute to the intellectual and artistic giants of antiquity and of then-modern times.  It includes portraits of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Leonardo and Michelangelo, as well as influential Islamic scholars. You probably did not know it, but the oh-so-clever Socrates was also a soldier in the Athenian army.

Paul Gauguin

What you see is only a part of a huge painting (now in the Boston Museum of Fine Art) which Gauguin considered to be his greatest masterpiece.   It is a wonderful piece, and educated wrestlers gotta love the title.   Surprisingly enough the answers to the title questions are quite simple:

Where do we come from? You come from a long tradition of excellent wrestlers, whether from the North Shore, Alberni or at other lesser locations.

What are we? You are wrestlers.  Educated wrestlers.

Where are we going? You are going on a pursuit of excellence, both on and off the mat.