To: Dick Bachert
That is an affront to Gainsborough's most excellent Blue Boy...a heckuva painting sans Bro. I have to make that right:
8 posted on
08/26/2009 12:28:27 AM PDT by
wardaddy
(Ya'll don't get too cocky about Bro's malaise...Toon came back too)
To: wardaddy; Dick Bachert
I agree - and aside from Gainsborough's tour de force, the "Blue Boy" isn't a good example of privilege.
The boy was the son of a merchant in London, not one of the privileged class. And Gainsborough decked him out in fancy 17th century dress as a homage to Van Dyck.
I think it would be more fun to mess with something like Rembrandt's Belshazzar's Feast -
23 posted on
08/26/2009 6:53:14 AM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: wardaddy
Wardaddy,
Thank you for this much needed correction.
Will write more later as I’m on vacation and just had to put a f**king state funeral on my busy schedule.
Love, Barrack
To: wardaddy
Thread hijack!
Rembrandt (of course)
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Bosch
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