Class 1 - Max Ernst

Max Ernst's "Thursday" puts a comical visual, the rooster, into positions of dark and dramatic imagery. He might be telling us to not take life so seriously.

On the first page, the rooster is ignorant of any threat the peasant woman dressed in black might present, a humble presence in the shadow of an overdramatic person. The rooster just wants the seeds.

By the second page is watching a man dressed as a rooster towering over an unconscious or deceased woman, kind of inconspicuous compared to the really dramatic furniture and reminding us that this isn't really a big deal.

On the third page the rooster kind of wants to be a part of the drama but not really, just like people who read Facebook comment arguments.

I'm pretty sure there's a regular rooster somewhere on the fourth page, but I can't find it. I think the men are jealous of the rooster's nonchalant attitude and are trying to channel that by becoming roosters.

On the fifth page, the roosters just happened to be in the room when a woman was murdered and her husband blames the roosters, but they're just kinda chilling not worrying because they're confident in their innocence.

The sixth page shows a dramatically posed couple while the rooster only watches from the background, probably mocking their negative emotions and wondering why humans take themselves so seriously.

The seventh page features a duo of embarrassed women who don't really want to be around the aggressive and overly macho rooster in a very serious theatre setting. In reality, the rooster's intentions are pure and he is only trying to get them to laugh.

In the eighth page, the rooster finally understands why the humans are so dramatic. It is fun to scare the people and he takes amusement in their fear.