Art Deco, I am confused. Are you saying that Robert Reich is a diagnosed Alzheimer’s patient? He’s been a leftist nut for years.
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1. Not diagnosed yet. His behavior has been increasingly strange for about a dozen years.
2. I consumed this man’s writing forty years ago. He was anything but a nut. He wasn’t a nut twenty years ago, either.
3. See the evolution of Jeffrey Hart’s thinking. And see what his family admitted after he died.
I’m shocked, shocked that the same people that lied about every single aspect of
Covid would misrepresent the facts.
I hardly think that is any kind of “history” of art. All manner of styles, cultures, various ‘schools’ and movements get no mention at all. Unless this was a Reader’s Digest version. I know people who have studied art their entire lives and still feel woefully uninformed.
All he’s saying there is basically that all research of this type is highly flawed, because of human subjects and the impossibility of equating the two groups – vaccinated and unvaccinated. Another thing he doesn’t mention there (at least, I didn’t see it in my quick perusal) is that all these stats depend on the definition of COVID deaths, which is highly subjective and way too inclusive.
I have written about these things at length.
Berenson is interesting but he’s got an agenda and a bone to pick, as do most people writing about this topic.
On the bus home from the massive center-right rally for judicial reform in Jerusalem.
600,000 people in a country of 10 million.
The patriotic, centrist, democratic majority won the election. We will not let it be stolen from us by Left wing elitists.
Note to my fellow Americans: the Start Up Nation still uses paper ballots and only a handful of people beside military and diplomatic personnel get absentee ballots.
Thanks, Art Deco. We shall see, perhaps. Lots of Democrats weren’t entirely crazy twenty years ago, and surely not all of the ones who are crazy now are Alzheimer’s cases.
In 1966 painter, David Hockney, broke through with an iconic Pop painting titled “The Splash.” It was representational, though in a schematic Pop style. You may well have seen a reproduction somewhere along the line. It sold for 23.1 million pounds in 2020.
Since then, he has studied Renaissance painting deeply and written a fascinating book arguing that the Old Masters used optical techniques for projecting images onto the canvas as a cheat to get those complex realistic effects.
In recent decades Hockney has returned to older painterly values. Hockney is creating representational art uninfringed by photography (the problem noted by physicsguy).
Here’s a wonderful five-minute segment on Hockney from Robert Hughes’ “The New Shock of the New” (which was a follow-up to the earlier “The Shock of the New.”) Brilliant stuff, for anyone interested in modern art and open to it.
Ever the optimist, I don’t believe modern art is doomed to its current postmodern fascism any more than the United States is as a nation.
I followed Banned Lizard’s twitter link and found Elon Musk’s reply to the usual leftie blathering how Tucker Carlson was a liar, a bigot and a conspiracy theorist pandering to a similarly afflicted right-wing audience:
______________________
Anyone making materially false statements on this platform will get Community Noted, including you, me, Tucker, advertisers, head of state, etc. No exceptions.
Convince the people and let the chips fall where they may.
–Elon Musk
huxley:
Just checked the link to Tucker’s “Good evening” tweet again. Looks the same as before, with replies down below, of course, including Elon’s.
It’s now at 69.3M views and still climbing.
The climate change brigades are on the march again, this time attempting to deface Edgar Degas’ “Little Dancer” sculpture in the National Gallery of Art. “Crusading climate activists targeted the renowned ‘Little Dancer Aged Fourteen’ sculpture in Washington D.C. on Thursday when they smeared its glass case and pedestal with black and red paint . . . . The two rabble-rousers were identified as Joanna Smith, 53, of New York City and Tim Martin, 54, of North Carolina by climate group Declare Emergency. . . .
Video released by the group shows the pair initially using their hands to paint the pedestal with Smith seen painting an unhappy face. Then they escalated to smearing paint on the protective glass to the shock of others in the gallery. . . . ‘Little Dancer’ was taken off display so staff could assess any potential damage.”
What’s unusual (to me at any rate) is the age of these two vandals– early to mid-fifties rather than the twenty-somethings that usually try to deface art works.
Apropos of the sculpture itself, which Degas made in 1881, Giovanni Aloi made a video presentation a year ago to explain why “Little Dancer” scandalized the people who first saw it. The video is part of his “Artifact” series and runs about 12 minutes– well worth the time. I had no idea until I saw the video that “Little Dancer” was so controversial during the Belle Époque.
After watching Aloi’s video, I am even more disturbed that two middle-aged virtue signalers appropriated Degas’ sculpture for their own neurotic obsessions.
Tucker’s video had 50 million views in 24 hours. And Twitter jettisoned the bots.
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Mr. Carlson speaks (a 2 minute monologue posted last night): https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1651376097349578753%7Ctwgr%5Ed1053c752d107f83b0b1da0a820fedfaf95f3d5b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2023%2F04%2F26%2Ftucker-carlson-breaks-silence-social-media%2F
At least it ended with Felix the Cat.
when did art stop being representational,
when did art stop being representational
When the camera became dominant.
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/27/destroying-a-democracy-to-save-it-robert-reich-calls-for-blocking-trump-from-ballots-as-a-traitor/#more-204203
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When people are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, you connect the dots and can see they’ve had issues for some time.
no he’s always been a jackass, because he was clinton’s cruise partner, we’ve been saddled with him for 30 years
Art Deco, I am confused. Are you saying that Robert Reich is a diagnosed Alzheimer’s patient? He’s been a leftist nut for years.
like an evil munchkin
https://substack.com/profile/10479177-emerald-robinson
Art Deco, I am confused. Are you saying that Robert Reich is a diagnosed Alzheimer’s patient? He’s been a leftist nut for years.
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1. Not diagnosed yet. His behavior has been increasingly strange for about a dozen years.
2. I consumed this man’s writing forty years ago. He was anything but a nut. He wasn’t a nut twenty years ago, either.
3. See the evolution of Jeffrey Hart’s thinking. And see what his family admitted after he died.
Alex Berenson on the data manipulations of jab advocates. https://open.substack.com/pub/alexberenson/p/exploding-the-myth-that-covid-jabs?r=pnf3m&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
I’m shocked, shocked that the same people that lied about every single aspect of
Covid would misrepresent the facts.
I hardly think that is any kind of “history” of art. All manner of styles, cultures, various ‘schools’ and movements get no mention at all. Unless this was a Reader’s Digest version. I know people who have studied art their entire lives and still feel woefully uninformed.
https://technofog.substack.com/p/biden-doj-kids-have-a-constitutional
stan:
All he’s saying there is basically that all research of this type is highly flawed, because of human subjects and the impossibility of equating the two groups – vaccinated and unvaccinated. Another thing he doesn’t mention there (at least, I didn’t see it in my quick perusal) is that all these stats depend on the definition of COVID deaths, which is highly subjective and way too inclusive.
I have written about these things at length.
Berenson is interesting but he’s got an agenda and a bone to pick, as do most people writing about this topic.
On the bus home from the massive center-right rally for judicial reform in Jerusalem.
600,000 people in a country of 10 million.
The patriotic, centrist, democratic majority won the election. We will not let it be stolen from us by Left wing elitists.
Note to my fellow Americans: the Start Up Nation still uses paper ballots and only a handful of people beside military and diplomatic personnel get absentee ballots.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/
At this moment, Tucker’s encouraging “Good evening” video on Twitter (referenced by Rufus above) has 65 million views. Is that a lot? Seems like a lot.
Thanks, Art Deco. We shall see, perhaps. Lots of Democrats weren’t entirely crazy twenty years ago, and surely not all of the ones who are crazy now are Alzheimer’s cases.
Babylon Bee:
Unemployed Guy’s Basement Selfie Video Crushes Fox News In Primetime
Update: 67M views & still climbing…
Re: Representational art
In 1966 painter, David Hockney, broke through with an iconic Pop painting titled “The Splash.” It was representational, though in a schematic Pop style. You may well have seen a reproduction somewhere along the line. It sold for 23.1 million pounds in 2020.
–David Hockney | The Splash (1966)
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/contemporary-art-eve-l20020/lot.16.html
Since then, he has studied Renaissance painting deeply and written a fascinating book arguing that the Old Masters used optical techniques for projecting images onto the canvas as a cheat to get those complex realistic effects.
In recent decades Hockney has returned to older painterly values. Hockney is creating representational art uninfringed by photography (the problem noted by physicsguy).
Here’s a wonderful five-minute segment on Hockney from Robert Hughes’ “The New Shock of the New” (which was a follow-up to the earlier “The Shock of the New.”) Brilliant stuff, for anyone interested in modern art and open to it.
–“The New Shock of the New: David Hockney on What’s Unphotographable”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDTEejaDC1M
Ever the optimist, I don’t believe modern art is doomed to its current postmodern fascism any more than the United States is as a nation.
I followed Banned Lizard’s twitter link and found Elon Musk’s reply to the usual leftie blathering how Tucker Carlson was a liar, a bigot and a conspiracy theorist pandering to a similarly afflicted right-wing audience:
______________________
Anyone making materially false statements on this platform will get Community Noted, including you, me, Tucker, advertisers, head of state, etc. No exceptions.
Convince the people and let the chips fall where they may.
–Elon Musk
huxley:
Just checked the link to Tucker’s “Good evening” tweet again. Looks the same as before, with replies down below, of course, including Elon’s.
It’s now at 69.3M views and still climbing.
The climate change brigades are on the march again, this time attempting to deface Edgar Degas’ “Little Dancer” sculpture in the National Gallery of Art. “Crusading climate activists targeted the renowned ‘Little Dancer Aged Fourteen’ sculpture in Washington D.C. on Thursday when they smeared its glass case and pedestal with black and red paint . . . . The two rabble-rousers were identified as Joanna Smith, 53, of New York City and Tim Martin, 54, of North Carolina by climate group Declare Emergency. . . .
Video released by the group shows the pair initially using their hands to paint the pedestal with Smith seen painting an unhappy face. Then they escalated to smearing paint on the protective glass to the shock of others in the gallery. . . . ‘Little Dancer’ was taken off display so staff could assess any potential damage.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/27/climate-protesters-joanna-smith-and-tim-martin-smear-paint-on-little-dancer-sculpture-in-washington-d-c/
What’s unusual (to me at any rate) is the age of these two vandals– early to mid-fifties rather than the twenty-somethings that usually try to deface art works.
Apropos of the sculpture itself, which Degas made in 1881, Giovanni Aloi made a video presentation a year ago to explain why “Little Dancer” scandalized the people who first saw it. The video is part of his “Artifact” series and runs about 12 minutes– well worth the time. I had no idea until I saw the video that “Little Dancer” was so controversial during the Belle Époque.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySHWQ0sZSc8&ab_channel=GiovanniAloi-Artifact
After watching Aloi’s video, I am even more disturbed that two middle-aged virtue signalers appropriated Degas’ sculpture for their own neurotic obsessions.
Tucker’s video had 50 million views in 24 hours. And Twitter jettisoned the bots.