Project Willow wrote::hug1: Ahab
I thought it was well established that Michelangelo drew from male models.
Yeah... It turns out that my highly exciting globbet of gossip (now that I look at the publication date of the book I shamelessly copied it from) was apparently a reasonably well-established and unthrilling bit of theory in the late eighties. Whatever. I still said it here before you did, and that has to count for something.
I'm not a Stuckist by the way, but I do have some sympathy with their views on art... a bit. Not their views of society though. I think Billy Childish is alright. Like him, I accept fully that conceptual art is both the dominant force on the contemporary scene and will continue to be dominant in the future but that doesn't mean I have to think it's all great or anything. Though some of it is great!
Project Willow wrote:I wish I had seen the Caravaggio
Ah, but you didn't, did you? No, you didn't. Only I did. So there.
Project Willow wrote:but I have seen his works that are in the Uffizi, as well as Artemisia Gentileschi's Judith. Take that!
Ach... galleries don't count anyway.