The Greatest Painting? So Aldous Huxley deemed Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection of Christ

National Review ^ | 09/21/2013 | M. D. Aeschliman

[eartrumpet]

There have been a few great Kincade threads. Search them out and learn all about light and layout and light and floods and light and design and light.

[KC Burke]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Winslow_Homer_-_Two_Men_in_a_Canoe.jpg

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

My favorite art moment in Rome was randomly wandering into a church on the Piazza del Popolo and finding two giant Caravaggios, including this:

[Smokin' Joe]

Actually, I have long opined that most of the works of Picasso I have seen are crap.

[PLMerite]

It might be dead center on the canvas, but on that crop of the image it is to the right.

[COBOL2Java]

Beautiful painting. Another artist from the same era was the pointillist Georges Seurat. I like his painting "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" - you may remember it from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" as the one Cameron sort of "falls" into, looking at the little girl's face:

[COBOL2Java]

What is the angel playing the mandolin looking at?

[workerbee]

Aw c’mon. There’s nothing wrong with Thomas Kincaide.

[Red Boots]

Oh, love that !

[Mr. Jeeves]

What is the angel playing the mandolin looking at?

Maybe there was a grasshopper in the other model's hair. :)

[editor-surveyor]

Charming.

This stuff disgusts me.

Could these twisted paintings be the reason that Yehova forbid the making of images?

[editor-surveyor]

We all know what Huxley was.

[editor-surveyor]

No, it’s off somewhat to the right, I just measured it.

[Daffynition]

This sums it up for ya:

**At the age of 14 Aldous Huxley would lose his mother and he himself would subsequently become ill in 1911 with a disease that would leave him virtually blind.**

http://www.egs.edu/library/aldous-huxley/biography/

[editor-surveyor]

Huxley has a much different idea of what is admirable than I do!

[Daffynition]

There's no accounting for personal *taste.* [That's how we got Hussein, IIRC]

[Revolting cat!]

Is there no avoiding tabloidal discussions of people?

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

[editor-surveyor]

Some art is good, but some is simply defiling just to look at.

[urtax$@work]

I think Bouguereau is about the best also. Read that
he reached his height in the late 19th C. just as the Impressionists were coming onto the scene.

When asked who they thought who was the best, they
agreed it was Bouguereau. Soon after in just a few
decades, the art world DEvolved into dada(against all aspects of Western culture).

Thanks for your posting pic.

[SamAdams76]

Imagine that, people spending a sunny day lounging in the grass by a river. If that painting was done today, everybody would have their faces buried in a phone device or tablet.

I am old enough to remember when Sunday afternoons used to be truly lazy. All the stores were closed and people just went outdoors to take a stroll or read a book.