Gauguin: More than one disease introduced to natives. One was not his fault but he tried to cure it. I may have sold Gauguin short in terms of his ethnographic conscientiousness. I’d been citing him as an example of the “artistic genius” who wasn’t worth it for his moral failing. There is still a good measure of truth to that, but he may not have been quite as heinous and without effort to be considerate as I had thought in terms of concern for what is important to other people - at least those of Tahiti and their culture. My line had been that as an artist he is as satisfying as any to me, nevertheless as a man who infected who knows how many native girls with syphilis, he was a killer. His art, no matter how good, not worth that behavior. Even so, as I watch this biography, a couple of mitigating facts are revealed. True, he still would have infected at least one native girl with syphilis. However, he married her and apparently did not know that he had the disease when he infected her. Still bad, of course, as there was no effective treatment for the disease even with French civilization settled there. Add to that his knowledge of the risks of his own promiscuity beforehand along with his ultimate abandonment of his first wife, French wife and kids back in France. However, the biography reveals that before he fell ill, he was really concerned to find and help preserve the authentic Tahitian people and culture. With that, he was dismayed by the impact of French civilization and missionaries, how they’d already by his time begun to destroy the native culture. He was particularly bothered by the imposition of Christian schooling upon the native children that had by then caused them to lose their native religion. He would actually go to the children and their parents with a French law book - reading them their rights so that they would know that they did not have to go to the missionary school. Finally, he went so far as to try to recreate their native religious stories in writing and in his paintings… Comments:2
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Posted by James Pradier on Sun, 02 Sep 2018 15:08 | # All too often it seems that classical European artists depict the female form as rather robust, big, fat, clunky but functional - as captured in the term, “Rubenesque” - a synonym for yecch! James Pradier didn’t make that mistake: ....oops, how did these pictures of this woman who is not my girlfriend… ...though she might meet the physical requirements ...accidentally get attached here?
....even though I find fishing boring, I might put up with it in this case…. .....even though I think “thongs” look retarded (a camel foot white socks and sandals effect) ... but I am a forgiving sort.
Barros Family History It’s important to note that these stupid reactionary right wingers are inclined to lump the Spanish (or Portuguese) speaking peoples of South America with “non Whites” and thereby precipitate the loss of beauties like Luiza for our kind as she is considered “one and the same as non-European peoples.” 6
Posted by Edmund Leighton on Sun, 28 Oct 2018 18:24 | # In Time of Peril (1897) is a painting by the English painter Edmund Leighton. #InTimeofPeril Leighton depicts two young princes, one still a baby wrapped in his mother’s elaborate royal clothing, being spirited away from danger to a protective monastery. Auckland Art Gallery. 11
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Posted by We are all Edward Hopper paintings now on Fri, 20 Mar 2020 05:00 | # Under Corona Chan, We are all Edward Hopper Paintings Now 19
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Posted by mancinblack on Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:46 | # Jan Rudolph de Lorm, museum director of the Singer Laren was a little more direct and honest about the theft, telling Dutch news site ONS he was “shocked and incredibly pissed off”. 21
Posted by “shocked and incredibly pissed off” on Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:00 | # “Shocked and incredibly pissed off” - how’s that for phraeseology: lol The Scream 23
Posted by Guessedworker on Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:15 | # What we lost: Portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham by Antonis Mor, painted between 1560 and 1565. 26
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Gustave Caillebotte’s works -> https://art-art-art.net/caillebotte/amp/ 29
Posted by mancinblack on Wed, 17 Jun 2020 22:10 | # Paintings by Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (5th Nov 1858- 11th Feb 1923) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kd_id3JEXE&list=PLR09I5pLvoNL-LF4hn6hkYXUqj6EiM0M1&index=2
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Leonardo da Vinci’s works -> https://art-art-art.net/da-vinci/amp/ world painting@worldpainting2
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Posted by Marcel Dyf on Fri, 03 Jul 2020 13:49 | # Marcel Dyf - Young Woman with a Post Card 1950 47
Posted by Edvard Munch on Sat, 04 Jul 2020 04:11 | # Birch Trees with Woman Walking, 1882. 49
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Posted by Gabriel von Max 1870 on Sun, 19 Jul 2020 15:07 | # By denying the face, von Max is teaching the audience to see the painting as an abstract: even the old masters organized their paintings by an “under painting” which arranged the abstract light and dark forms of the painting. Abstract painting thus, was more of an incremental change than the radical change that the general public would suspect. 57
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Posted by The Accolade articulated on Sat, 25 Jul 2020 16:10 | # This is a better articulated image of Edmund Leighton’s “The Accolade” 1901. The wire mesh and other detail are well differentiated in this version of the image…which is important to the painting’s merit, as Southeby’s describes:
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Posted by mancinblack on Sat, 25 Jul 2020 17:46 | # Yes, ‘The Accolade’ is Leighton’s most famous painting but my favourite by him is ‘My Next Door Neighbour’ (1894) as it depicts something most of us would have experienced at least once in our lives. 61
Posted by The Roots of Van Gogh & Jackson Pollack found on Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:23 | # They found the place of Van Gogh’s last painting…
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Posted by Benton swirling mentor on Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:36 | # ...and, believe it or not, Jackson Pollack was a student of Thomas Hart Benton…. I guess that you can also so an influence from Benton’s swirls…. 65
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