... keep reading and knit, too, if you like, or make writing your second activity. Your musings are welcome here.
(The painting, like the one in the previous post, is by Johann Georg Meyer. This one is from 1863. According to Wikipedia, Meyer depicted "incidents from popular life, especially among the Hessian peasantry, and finally to the portrayal of family life in its pathetic aspect." He's considered part of the Düsseldorf school of painting.)
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Needs a cat.
Jose Feliciano's version of "Last Thing On My Mind" is the best.
You would have to be blind not to notice
I guess her mother scolded her, but at least she’s that much further along on the sweater. (Looks like the same wool.)
Actually, could be the same girl and certainly the same tablecloth.
I dig chicks who read books.
That book is apparently quite illuminating..
Just how many young girls did he paint?
It disgusts me a bit that my mind went there.
hope she didn't miss a stitch
It seems to be the same girl at the same age in both paintings, even though they are painted, I think, 8 years apart.
It's Dorian Gray in reverse.
If Facebook is banning ads for being “disrespectful” they are going to have to pull a lot of anti-Trump memes off of their site.
”The production models we’ve tried so far have failed and the responsibility is ours, mine and yours,” Maduro told his ruling PSUV party congress, as Venezuela looks to tackle chronic inflation the International Monetary Fund predicted would reach one million percent this year.
"Enough with the whining... we need to produce with or without (outside) aggression, with or without blockades, we need to make Venezuela an economic power," he added late Monday, with the country grappling with a four-year long recession.
“No more whining, I want solutions comrades!”
The socialist government has over recent years nationalized various industry sectors such as cement and steel, expropriated hundreds of businesses, including supermarket chains, and lately brought in the army to control street markets to guard against rising prices.
It has also fixed prices on various goods and imposed a monopoly on foreign exchange.. - France24
All of this stuff should work! Must be Trump! Obama assured us that Chavez was onto a good thing.
I can't believe we're debating socialism for the United States again.
I saw ‘Hessian Peasantry’ open for ‘Pathetic Aspect’ in ‘92.
Talking Heads Arthaus, pre-Rammstein post-East German disaffected synthrage, but with some Dieter’s Dance Party thrown-in.
Totally kuhl.
"I can't believe we're debating socialism for the United States again."
Stupidity never sleeps - and Trump winning has led to a lot of overconfidence on the right. The election was REALLY close, and the next one could easily go the other direction.
"I can't believe we're debating socialism for the United States again."
You can't believe the rich and powerful lie for more riches and more power?
Or you can't believe human nature fools the easiest person to fool, oneself (aka the Feynman observation)?
I can't believe your lack of belief. If it helps you, remember you stand on giant's shoulders, complaining sans gratitude that they didn't do more for you today when they were alive back then. Then consider what will be thought of you in 50 years.
The significance of the girl in the painting wearing a red dress is obvious.
She is menstruating. She is fertile. She is ready.
Insert Pornhub comment here.
Guildofcannonballs said...
"I can't believe we're debating socialism for the United States again."
Probably can't believe they haven't been killed, but this in itself is due to the failure of socialism. One thing socialism has a long track record of producing is dead people and socialists.
This painting is kitsch, akin to a Thomas Kincaid painting. The difference between beautiful and tacky can be seen by comparing this to a painting by Vermeer.
It isn't possible to have high brow without middle and low brow.
There's a bit in Saki I'd quote if I could remember which story.
Robert Cook is correct, but the eyes should be a lot bigger.
And she should be playing poker.
She is white and reading, so this is obviously a dog whistle racist painting.
Blogger J. E. Malthaus said...
The significance of the girl in the painting wearing a red dress is obvious.
She is menstruating. She is fertile. She is ready.
Insert Pornhub comment here.
The brightly lit face of innocence is the flipside of the dark vaginal fold between her left arm and torso.
Blogger J. E. Malthaus said...
The significance of the girl in the painting wearing a red dress is obvious.
She is menstruating. She is fertile. She is ready.
Insert Pornhub comment here.
The brightly lit face of innocence is the flipside of the dark vaginal fold between her left arm and torso.
I love to read and knit at the same time! However, it's usually my Kindle propped up on the table rather than a book.
Maybe she is following a stitch pattern in one of the homemakers' guides from the time? (I have a couple, in French and in English; refer to them every now and again.)
A little too 'realist' for me, but still lovely to muse on. Don't the French call this Academic style?
Thank you for posting this; it's calming.
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