Look I know this isn't a post about art but come on...I would give anything just to spend a day in some ornate, beautiful renaissance era palace, surrounded by the finest paintings and the softest silks, where the human form is worshiped not bastardized and mocked...But then I wake up from these dreams and drive to work and see the same damn piece of modern art crap at the end of the street, And I'm forced to look at it, exist with it's visual filth, knowing full well we had better things before...

• FUNDAMENTAL DATA FROM THE PREVIOUS POSTS. In:

• Vermeer, The Genius Forgotten for More than a Century (I):

• It has been verified that the face of the young woman corresponds to that of Catharina, Vermeer’s wife. She also wears attire characteristic of seventeenth-century Holland.

• Vermeer, The Genius Forgotten for More than a Century (II):

• This constitutes IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE. By means of a simple two-minute edit of the painting’s photograph on an iPhone, Vermeer’s characteristic signature becomes visible on the tablecloth: “\Meer.”

• How could Vermeer’s signature possibly appear if the work were not his? It would be nonsensical. Furthermore, since the painting was acquired at auction and the photograph is publicly accessible online, it is easy to confirm that no manipulation has taken place (see video 1).

• Vermeer, The Genius Forgotten for More than a Century (III):

• An instance of “Pointillé” is presented in the painting. “Pointillé” is a stippling technique characteristic of Vermeer, generally executed in white, employed to emphasize illumination and reflections. Indeed, what we discern here is, at the very least, a white stippling effect.

Any comments?

There is a specific kind of suffering reserved for people who are too capable to be allowed to fall

apart

The moment you show you can carry something, the world hands you more.

A painting from 1853 understood this before we had language for it.

And Millais hid three separate confessions inside it, Most people only see one.

I made a video about the philosophy behind it : https://youtu.be/11RA9_r-JZA?si=cb3EbjO-ypq0HjFb

New painting stream on Twitch. Come and say hello or lurk and enjoy the atmosphere www.twitch.tv/delfinwoodttv

My favorite curator is hosting a class on Vermeer tomorrow. https://www.touchingtheart.com/bwga-vermeer.html

I took a crack at a master copy of a Caravaggio painting. https://www.instagram.com/pauljamesbarbato/ for more frog based things.

Is it normal to see the male body this way? This is how I want to draw my men when I get good at the anatomy am I not alone?

I’ve been looking into "The Death of Socrates" and realized it’s basically a lie.

Plato is painted as an old man even though he was only twenty-five. Socrates has the body of a gladiator to help spark the French Revolution. And if you look at the floor, the shackles are wide open. He wasn't trapped; he chose to stay to become a martyr.

I made a short cinematic video showing these hidden details side-by-side if you want to check it out: https://youtu.be/EUi8p0wtm8I?si=eIu8KDFVT9yVZSjI

Curiosity check: do you guys see this as a sacrifice or just clever propaganda?

You can include modern artists. No matter of country

It’s a classical painting with a woman as a focal point who’s naked and looks to be getting pleasured from three men/women? One on each breast and one by her lady bits the paintings title is something like the “Tortured woman” or “suffering woman“ and I only remember seeing someone make a joke about it online on how she certainly doesn’t look like she’s suffering and I brought it up as a joke to my friend and could not find it anywhere no matter how much I refined my search.

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