The whole thing (and the obvious relation to and mockery of this) reminds me of a poem by Pushkin.
An artist-barbarian with a drowsy brush Blackens over the painting of a genius And senselessly draws on top of it His own illegitimate designs. But over the years the foreign paint Flakes away like old scales, And the genius’s work appears again Before us in its former beauty. Thus do delusions vanish From my worried soul, And in their place visions arise Of pure, original days.
And I'm 99% certain that they are both a parody of already existing buddhist paintings
What I'm aware of is the Buddhist symbolism in the Madokami image; if there is any Buddhist symbolism in Homura's, it escapes me. So too are the paintings they are supposed to take after.
If it's the same artist, I'd say "mockery" is definitely not the right word
Pallacertus said: What I'm aware of is the Buddhist symbolism in the Madokami image; if there is any Buddhist symbolism in Homura's, it escapes me. So too are the paintings they are supposed to take after.
Actually, I wouldn't call it a parody either. I remember uploading those, they were actually posted together (actually you can see that they link to the same source). It's unclear which is a parody of which. I'd say "twin drawings" is more accurate
And nps, the whole page there is actually an interesting read