The Veronese is magnificent! Truly one of the high points of the art of that period. I wouldn't exchange it for a wilderness of Toyotas.
DA On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:04 PM, armando baeza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the two old people painting to me shows talent ,freedom, uniqeness. > spontaneity, control, intensity, knowledge of form, ect.etc.Great! > Veronese shows great talent wasted on popular forced compositions > to please forces outside of himself. If I had that painting ,I'd trade it > small gas saving toyota and give the rest of it's worth to my kids. > mando > > On May 15, 2008, at 3:24 PM, Derek wrote: > >> Here is a comparison. The notion of beauty can sensibly be used with >> the Veronese - and not just because of the subject. He offers us an >> image of beauty and nobility to wonder at and admire. Goya is plumbing >> the depths of some nether world. He is not remotely interested in >> beauty or evoking admiration. Applying the notion of beauty >> indiscriminately to paintings as different as these two simply empties >> the idea of beauty of sense and substance. >> >> http://picasaweb.google.com/derekalla/Images2?authkey=hkLQ1OpKJWE >> >> [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of >> picasaweblogo-en_US.gif] >> >> [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of >> email.jpg] > > -- Derek Allan http://www.home.netspeed.com.au/derek.allan/default.htm
