Stalin's Poetry

Re:Stalin's Poetry by deogeo on Sunday September 29, 2019 @09:55PM (#21111100)

"One modern art critic was asked to review some of his paintings without being told who painted them and judged them quite good in 2002. The different style in which he drew human figures, however, the critic said, represented a profound disinterest in people."

But of course he was a Bad Man, so he cannot be allowed to have any good qualities, therefore his art is bad.

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Re:Stalin's Poetry by goto11 on Monday September 30, 2019 @03:51AM (#21112701)

A lot of context is missing from that quote. I'm pretty sure nobody sane have ever claimed this is great art. But perhaps quite good for an amateur. Only the buildings really works in the paintings, the rest looks like crap.

But he seem to be quite competent at drawing architecture, which is also what the Vienna school told him.

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Re:Stalin's Poetry by deogeo on Monday September 30, 2019 @04:18AM (#21112817)

> I'm pretty sure nobody sane have ever claimed this is great art.

You would think the same was true of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Darks_in_Red, and yet...

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Re:Stalin's Poetry by pavlov on Monday September 30, 2019 @05:04AM (#21113078)

Have you seen the Rothko in person? It is a large work with deep color that doesn’t reproduce in photos displayed on computer screens.

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Re:Stalin's Poetry by deogeo on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:58PM (#21117346)

Unfortunately, the only Rothko I've seen in person was a small one. But I have seen a lot of other modern art in person, large and small. I was not impressed.

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