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The Greatest Painting? So Aldous Huxley deemed Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection of Christ
National Review ^ | 09/21/2013 | M. D. Aeschliman

Posted on 09/21/2013 10:12:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind



TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Religion
KEYWORDS: aldoushuxley; painting; ressurection
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To: SeekAndFind
So using his criteria, what do we make of this Picasso painting?

Piece o' crap, by any standard.

Can't wait until this commie's garbage reverts to its intrinsic value, and bored investment bankers are left holding the bag.

21 posted on 09/21/2013 10:53:06 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Ditter

I think you mean Tom Wolfe. There is a difference.


22 posted on 09/21/2013 10:54:41 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!

“... I hope to show, his painting has certain affinities, Piero seems to have been inspired by what I may call the
religion of Plutarch’s Lives - which is not Christianity, but a worship of what is admirable in man.” Huxley


23 posted on 09/21/2013 10:56:16 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Communist Goals #23: Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

Mission accomplished!

24 posted on 09/21/2013 10:58:25 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
HOW ABOUT THESE PIECES OF ART PAID FOR BY TAX PAYER DOLLARS:

"HOLY VIRGIN MARY" (in dung ) and PISS CHRIST...

25 posted on 09/21/2013 11:01:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: a fool in paradise
It has. One of my favorite living painters is Steven Assael. I had the opportunity to meet him at one of his seminars. The photos on the Internet do not convey the richness of his painting techniques.
http://www.stevenassael.com/

I also admire the graphite drawings of Anthony Ryder.
http://www.theryderstudio.com/

This worth exploring. There are several wonderfully talented artists participating in their competitions.
http://www.portraitsociety.org/

26 posted on 09/21/2013 11:03:15 AM PDT by wintertime
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To: SeekAndFind

27 posted on 09/21/2013 11:05:20 AM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Concrete is a wonderfully plastic material that can easily be molded into interesting designs and shapes with **color**

. Why don’t architects take advantage of this amazingly substance? Why the stark straight lines? Why this dreadful putty color?


28 posted on 09/21/2013 11:06:42 AM PDT by wintertime
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To: eartrumpet; a fool in paradise
Dude, you forgot the masterpiece!


29 posted on 09/21/2013 11:12:10 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!

Tears to my eyes.


30 posted on 09/21/2013 11:17:26 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Banishment of Beauty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGX0_0VL06U


31 posted on 09/21/2013 11:20:43 AM PDT by urtax$@work (The only kind of memorial is a Burning memorial !)
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To: Revolting cat!

Yes I misspelled his name.


32 posted on 09/21/2013 11:21:34 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: SeekAndFind
William Bouguereau is the greatest. I used to have a print of this one, "Song of the Angels", hanging in my house. But I gave it to a friend and it got smashed during a move...


33 posted on 09/21/2013 11:21:43 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Now that painting looks like something taken by a camera.

I bet he had real models for that painting and my, all those girls really look angelic.


34 posted on 09/21/2013 11:23:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: eartrumpet

No thanks.


35 posted on 09/21/2013 11:25:34 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Wow, that is one white Jesus.


36 posted on 09/21/2013 11:27:10 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: wintertime
Why the stark straight lines? Why this dreadful putty color?

Those buildings are from a school of architecture called "brutalism." Wikipedia mentions that the architectural philosophy is associated with totalitarianism, and socialist utopianism (surprise!). If you search on "worst communist buildings," it's all you'll find. It was a popular architectural style in the '60s and 70s.

A very enlightening book on the philosophy behind modern architecture is, "Living Machings: Bauhaus Architecture as Sexual Ideology," by E. Michael Jones. Walter Gropius, like other modern icons, such as Kinsey and Keynes, was a degenerate. The idea behind the modern apartment building was to facilitate sexual promiscuity, destroy the family, and promote socialism. If anyone has ever lived in a college dorm...

37 posted on 09/21/2013 11:30:33 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: SeekAndFind

Huxley was extremely vision-impaired, possibly even legally blind.


38 posted on 09/21/2013 11:32:21 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: who knows what evil?
Mission accomplished!

Absolutely. What I find shocking is people who find it "beautiful." It was intended to be ugly. Just read what the Dadaists and Picasso had to say about their own "art."

39 posted on 09/21/2013 11:32:56 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: SeekAndFind
HOW ABOUT THESE PIECES OF ART PAID FOR BY TAX PAYER DOLLARS:

Some day I'm going to do some performance art on one of these so-called artists, and their art, if you know what I mean.

40 posted on 09/21/2013 11:34:22 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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