GIF: Lionel Messi's first ever goal for Barcelona, May 2005.
An 18 year-old Lionel Messi playing some casual head tennis in a pool?
“Messi” by Daniel Kliger
Oil on canvas. 18x24.
“Sport seems to me the best expression of modernism. It is a balance between war and art, competition and beauty. Lionel Messi, as one of our greatest footballers, is also our greatest warrior and our greatest artist. Here Messi finds himself in an impressionist landscape and under the more violent sky of a war painting like Benjamin West’s ‘The Death of General Wolfe.’”
Daniel Kliger lives in New York City, where he attends Columbia University. We’re delighted to be featuring “Messi” on AFR. [Posted by Eric]
GIF: Lionel Messi scores his 336th goal for Barcelona, the highest total by a player for a single club in Spain.