Posted on 08/25/2009 10:30:07 PM PDT by dila813
Well I am sure many of those young people spent the summer out of a job, so maybe that hopey changey thing did not work out too well.
I don’t understand how he still maintains an overall approval of 51%. Idiots.
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 -
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
OMG!! WWOD?
some also think he took some inspiration in the pose from an earlier Charles II Van Dyck had done and somehing about Van Dyck’s talk of light inspiration....it is to me anyhow one of the finest representational arts ever produced..in the top 10-20 I’d wager even to critics wouldn’t you?
it’s funny, I’m old now but as lad in the 60s I recall going into country homes in the South and there would be Blue Boy on the wall in the parlor or foyer of whites from real crackers to gentry
it was as ubiquitous as JFK was in black homes lol
I never knew till just now that it hung in a private home for some time in Kali
It was a mistake to allow 18 year olds to vote.
"The beautiful Mrs. Graham" - a renowned society beauty, nee' Miss Cathcart.
But I think I like him best in his less polished mode - as in this sketch of his daughters -
I'm a minority opinion, I know, but I think that Hogarth - when he's on his game - is the best of the English painters.
You’re right about the ubiquity of the “Blue Boy” in the South, btw. My mom, who has always been more avant-garde than I am (still is) used to roll her eyes. And I remember Mad magazine had a parody back in the 60s . . .
nice liht and skin tone...I like Holbien
not technically British and different era but he did survive the Anne of Cleves liberties in painting
some like Reynolds too
his work was sorta ubiquitos too...can’t recall the name of work that was his most popular
Young people were dumbed down by bad public education and still naive enough to buy into his hogwash.. now they get to see the dems/commies in action and learn that what they were told in school was absolute hogwash.
A lot of college grads out there not finding any work, and seeing a guy who they “believed” in.. perpetually lie to them.
The piper will be paid, make no doubt about it.
Reynolds's celebrity portraits were a little too burnished for my taste, but like Gainsborough he had his less formal moments and in my opinion was better then. Here are his portraits of Dr. Samuel Johnson - the first, made when Johnson was a relatively young man, is a frighteningly realistic likeness of a man with a lot of physical and emotional problems --
The second is just as revealing, although more subtly:
And the third is the public Johnson, the grouch.
I think Reynolds was very perceptive, but only if he knew you and liked you. Clearly he liked Johnson.
Here's another jolly Hogarth:
Garrick (the actor) and his wife.
The French Ambassadors. That's an anamorphically projected skull in the foreground.
His "Dead Christ Entombed" is brutal -
The young’uns are admitting their parents were right.
Where do you see him getting hammered on FB?
I think the Dem kids feel like they screwed their parents, check this
http://www.breitbart.tv/update-democrat-official-very-wrong-about-who-vandalized-colorado-party-hq/
Even the Dem kids are going anti-health care
What is this about pot?
And who are you calling black?
What?
He looked pissed off this morning when he gave his (very brief) statement on Kennedy’s demise.
First of all, his vacation is being interrupted. Secondly, all the crap about Cheney and the CIA is being pushed right off the front page. Also, his 500 staged pro-Public Option rallies will be ignored by the media as they chase down various Kennedys and hangers-on from the Mass. State Capitol to the Church to Arlington.
I love it when a plan (Karma’s Plan) comes together!
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