Re: 'You're always thinking about Goya's black paintings, aren't you Derek?'
Only becasue they - and other works done at this later stage - are when Goya became Goya. If he had died at around 45 he would be remembered today only as a relatively minor Baroque painter. Re: '> Are they beautiful? > > Only if you compare them to the enormous genre of depressing, depraved, vile > figurative images made after 1900 -- especially the ones made after 1950.' I can't imagine the kind of image I posted being described as beautiful as compared with anything. Enormously powerful yes. Beautiful, no. Who are the painters you have in mind by the way? DA On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're always thinking about Goya's black paintings, aren't you Derek? > (just as William always seems to have the works of David on his mind) > > Are they beautiful? > > Only if you compare them to the enormous genre of depressing, depraved, vile > figurative images made after 1900 -- especially the ones made after 1950. > > This is the work of a man who has had -- and knew how to make -- fine > illusions -- and then lost them. > > While his heirs never had any illusions worth losing. > > > _____________________________________________________________ > Scan, remove and block Spyware. Click now! > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2211/fc/Ioyw6ijlZvPxxvw3SP9ITUUloHrX3K > SuMGYqXBLmOsff5XEY8ae5eM/?count=1234567890 > > -- Derek Allan http://www.home.netspeed.com.au/derek.allan/default.htm
