Stuart Walsh wrote: >David Kilpatrick wrote: > > >http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/steen/p-steen8.htm > > >>The company on a terrace is a fantastic portrayal of the imagined state >>of the drunken reveller - the handsome, young, slim, cittern-player who >>is the centre of attention - with the shambolic crudity of reality, a >>load of fat and half-arsed folk knocking things over, offering wine to >>baby, ignoring the dog, painting the ceiling, etc. The entire figure of >>the citternisto represents something. Not sure what. >> >> >> >> >Surely the girl is the centre of attention. She occupies the central >position. The light shines on her. Her chrome top contrasts dramatically >with all the orange around her. > >She's doing the wrist presentation thing with one arm and lifting her >apron with the other. Is she a desperate wanton or a disappointed one? >Anyway, cittern-boy, with his little cittern, which he's only managing >to play in first position, doesn't look like he'd be of much use to her. > > > > > She certainly is the centre of attention but he's in an important position compositionally. Probably her son, born when she was 12 :-) And he's the only one who isn't drunk or drinking.
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