Posted on 03/12/2017 4:01:25 PM PDT by brucedickinson
The exhibition's curator sees little artistic merit in the undated painting. "It's a piece of crap," says curator Vittorio Sgarbi. "It's a painting by a hopeless man, it could have been done by Kafka, it says a lot about his psyche: here you do not see greatness, you see misery."
Hitler famously applied to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in the 1900s but was rejected twice. Despite being considered a mediocre artist, his work has fetched considerable sums at auction in recent years.
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W. may be coming out of the closet soon. Only a gay man would want to paint fluffy little white dogs on teal canvas’s. lol.
This painting popped into my mind.
you’d have to train the horses to go backwards in order for your sedan chair to go forwards but that’s a synonym for life I think
Today ze fishbowl, tommorow, ze vorld!
Yeah... it does.
Klimt?
LOL
Hitler... there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in ONE afternoon! TWO coats!
If it had been signed by Picasso it would have been considered a MASTERPIECE!
“No mistakes, just happy accidents.”
Well, it happened to be the Friday of the big Jewish holy day (Atonement?), and as soon as the Sun started to go down, the painters, probably not Jewish with names like William Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzwilliam, took off, leaving paint rings on the hardwood floor. Randall said the rings were still on the floor when he moved out. (He covered them with a rug or runner)
So, would AH take advantage of the calendar, or finish the job?
I’ve seen worse. Jack the Dripper comes to mind.
I can’t stand the sight of that guy, especially with that stupid grin on his face and squinty eyes.
I like it as an illustration of a dark topic.
“It’s a piece of crap,” says curator Vittorio Sgarbi. “It’s a painting by a hopeless man, it could have been done by Kafka, it says a lot about his psyche: here you do not see greatness, you see misery.”
Sadly, Hitler took our aphorism, "It's your world. You can do whatever you want in it," a little too literally.
I find the piece intriguing; guards, doorways, blood-red floor ... judgement??
It’s an insight into his vision, and of the darkness of his soul.
So are you saying when I get my time machine finished I should aim for Vienna - 1913?
Thanks for the post. I had only seen his sketches and I think watercolors. I don’t think it’s bad at all, and it’s curiously german-expressionist in light of what I thought were his later denunciations of artists like Kokoschka (sp?) And others. Also - wildly telling. A very significant “rabbit hole” and hall of mirrors behind the pitiless gaze of the paper-holder who seems to control both the fate of the viewer as well as of the attendant applicant or waiting hopeful.
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