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Title: Horsie Art Appreciation Day
Post by: Diane CBPFC on March 16, 2010, 09:22:18 PM
(http://www.metmuseum.org/media/3493/natm_bonheur_87.25.jpg)

This painting, featured by the Met on Facebook today, has an interesting story to it. http://www.metmuseum.org/now-at-the-met/features/2010/03/16/march-curator-interview.aspx (http://www.metmuseum.org/now-at-the-met/features/2010/03/16/march-curator-interview.aspx)
Title: Re: Horsie Art Appreciation Day
Post by: Bilthehut on March 17, 2010, 10:29:04 AM
I don't like the painting.
Title: Re: Horsie Art Appreciation Day
Post by: Vulture on March 17, 2010, 11:05:42 AM
Quote from: Bilthehut on March 17, 2010, 10:29:04 AM
I don't like the painting.


Yeah! It's too busy!
Title: Re: Horsie Art Appreciation Day
Post by: Diane CBPFC on March 17, 2010, 04:21:32 PM
I thought it was interesting in that it was so huge and yet went on tour. That can't have been easy. And I like the painting.
Title: Re: Horsie Art Appreciation Day
Post by: Jack on March 17, 2010, 04:42:52 PM
(http://i41.tinypic.com/34ytcpg.jpg)
Title: Re: Horsie Art Appreciation Day
Post by: Diane CBPFC on March 17, 2010, 06:09:01 PM
That smart looking animal has big ears Jack, are you sure it isn't an ass? 
Title: Re: Horsie Art Appreciation Day
Post by: Roger Kettle on March 17, 2010, 06:18:12 PM
Diane, it would be interesting to see that painting in the flesh as it's difficult to see it clearly here. The artist certainly seems to have been a remarkable woman.
I like your one-eyed horse, Jack.
Talking about horses, I put ten pounds each way on one called "Cue Card" in the 5.15 at Cheltenham today....
Title: Re: Horsie Art Appreciation Day
Post by: Jack on March 17, 2010, 07:04:44 PM
Quote from: Roger Kettle on March 17, 2010, 06:18:12 PM
I like your one-eyed horse, Jack.

It clearly has TWO eyes... the other is on the other side of it's head. Look, I even put a bump in the shape of the head to account for it. That's attention to detail.

Regardless, I shall name the horse "Egon".
Title: Re: Horsie Art Appreciation Day
Post by: The Peepmaster on March 18, 2010, 12:34:40 AM
Quote from: Jack on March 17, 2010, 07:04:44 PM
Quote from: Roger Kettle on March 17, 2010, 06:18:12 PM
I like your one-eyed horse, Jack.

It clearly has TWO eyes... the other is on the other side of it's head. Look, I even put a bump in the shape of the head to account for it. That's attention to detail.

Regardless, I shall name the horse "Egon".

Egon and lost his other eye?
Title: Re: Horsie Art Appreciation Day
Post by: Malc on March 18, 2010, 05:40:06 AM
I don't think comments like
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"most of them mention the artist's gender: "It would be a remarkable painting if it had been by a man, but it is extraordinary because it is by a woman"—that kind of remark."
are necessarily sexist or to be otherwise reproved, it was very unusual for a woman painter to be able to make a living as a painter until well into the 20th Century.
Like the male painters, it certainly helped if you were gay, and this lady (from the contemporary descriptions) certainly was.

Gay male painters weren't saddled with the burdens of earning enough money to feed a number of mouths and could flit from city to city, chasing commissions, as Da Vinci did. Their liaisons and love lives didn't end up in fatherhood, mortgages, rent, school fees, years of worry, stress and all the other attendant by-products of fertility.

Gay female painters (and poets, musicians, etc) were similarly unencumbered, happy to be labelled 'maiden aunts' into their dotage and able to concentrate on their work.
Title: Re: Horsie Art Appreciation Day
Post by: Diane CBPFC on March 18, 2010, 03:04:36 PM
Malc, you have an unusually fine-tuned gaydar.
Title: Re: Horsie Art Appreciation Day
Post by: Vulture on March 18, 2010, 03:17:19 PM
Quote from: Diane CBPFC on March 18, 2010, 03:04:36 PM
Malc, you have an unusually fine-tuned gaydar.

Yes, he does, doesn't he!