Posted on 06/26/2019 6:05:33 AM PDT by C19fan
I meant NOT feel anything. Grrrr
Somehow the anti-Renoir sentiment reminds me of Trotsky getting the icepick. Guessing it has leftist political beginnings. Feels purge-y.
I preferred Monet, Manet and Tippy Tippy Day Day.
And the Chrysler LeBaron.
I love Renoir and his painting, Luncheon of the Boating Party. I have stood in front of it and loved it......not the least reason being that the man seated at the far right of the painting is Gustavo Caillebotte, who painted Paris Street; Rainy Day. I once followed a group of school children around the Chicago Art Institute, so I could listen to the docent talk about the paintings. Fascinating.
What was the gist of the kids’ impressions of the paintings?
Arrtyfarty freaking slobs
Leave Renoir ALONE!
It’s good art, I have some prints and I LIKE EM.
and then return home to attempt suicide when you discover Rousseau's concept of the "noble savage" was complete BS.
They were just listening and not commenting.
Oh I got it — you were listening to the same commentary they were listening to.
Renoir also gets an unfair reputation of being anti-Semitic. No, he hated a Jewish guy named Charles Ephrussi (a well-known art critic of the time) and said crappy things about Ephrussi, including slurs about being Jewish, which were typical of the French.
There’s a French show on MHZ tv, “Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games” that has the male lead driving a Facel Vega or Facellia.
Period late 1950s France, but last night’s epi has one character saddened over the death of Marilyn Monroe.
I’m not sure you understand Duchamp’s point. He was contemptuous of modern art and was making the point that gullible people would accept ANYTHING as art, if it was displayed in a gallery. He was right. He was also critical of the whole “artist as driven, with compulsive NEED to create art,” so he took two years and just played chess, without creating any new “pieces.” Duchamp is awesome. It’s not about the pieces he displayed, it’s about him criticizing the direction art was headed. He also took a poster of the Mona Lisa, drew a mustache and beard on her, and wrote “she has a nice a$$” on it, then hung it in a gallery. People spent forever trying to figure out what he “meant” by it. The irony is that almost a century later, galleries are still displaying his pieces, but didn’t get his point.
I was in Chicago in the late 1980s, and stopped by the Art Institute to look at that painting.
Naturally, it wasn’t on display. It was being cleaned.
The Facellia had a four cylinder motor of about 1.6 liters. The HK 500 had the Chrysler V8 and it was probably a 150 mph car when property sorted out.
I’ve got to admit I have never liked most of the French Impressionists. That includes Renoir.
I love Edward Hopper, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Ashcan School of Artist John Sloan, George Bellows and even the nutcase self taught artist Henry Darger.
Also Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell.
But Renoir....wow, really don’t like his work. So many of his nudes are just awful.
As for today’s artists I have almost no interest at all. I’m more interested in the contemporary self taught artists than the morons who seek to ‘ enlighten ‘ us hillbilly schlubs.
Well, I don’t feel much, but I don’t have any problems with it.
I currently have “Oarsmen at Chatou” as my desktop background -
it’s beautiful.
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