Posted on 06/07/2005 12:23:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A good example of socialist art - something that most American and Western artists, from Picasso on down, must aspire to participate in, being that most of them consider themselves to be well to the left of center. They can't wait, I guess, to receive orders on exactly what to paint, from the State, I mean the democracy, or the people, or the community, etc.
Idiots.
The above is particularly evil, IMO.
I understand that John Singer Sargent attributed much of what he knew about painting to Velasquez.
It looks like I may have found a site that lets me link. If that refuses to stay up, I suppose I can copy the image to my hard drive and upload it to my own space and link from there...
Anyhow, I like this painting.
Very nice! Thanks for posting the pics.
Did you realize that Velazquez was probably influenced by Caravaggio, working in the early 17th century, especially this somewhat gay image of Bacchus? Velazquez's image is definitely more down-to-earth and robust. But there is something nicely sensuous about Caravaggio's textures that are definitely seductive. I guess that's the point. :)
Yes, there is that contradiction with leftists, isn't there? They support the State, as long as it's their state. They long to be supported by the State, as long as it doesn't tell them what to do. (None of them would do any socialist art like this, probably because it is based in realism and that is not cool.) Leftists don't want any freedom of thought that challenges what they accept as dogma.
That red image is particularly bilious.
Those are beautiful. I really like realistic art. It takes real talent and skill to paint life life objects. And of course, if it's from the 19th century, it has to be good. : ) I especially like the Pre-Raphaelites.
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