December 9, 2006
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ART WARS continued
Death on the Feast
of Saint Nicholas
Quotation from Log24 on
September 14, 2003--Readings on Aesthetics for the
Feast of the Triumph of the Cross:"We're not here to stick a mirror on you. Anybody
can do that, We're here to give you a more cubist or skewed mirror,
where you get to see yourself with fresh eyes. That's what an artist
does. When you paint the Crucifixion, you're not painting an exact
reproduction."-- Julie Taymor on "Frida" (AP, 10/22/02)
"Saint Francis Borgia at the Deathbed of an Impenitent [above], painted by Francisco Goya (1746-1828) in 1788, is
one of the most astonishing works in an oeuvre replete with remarkable
images. In the decade and a half since its inclusion in Robert Rosenblum's
survey* of nineteenth-century art, this canvas has become widely known
among scholars and their students. Rosenblum, following a line of
interpretation that dates back to the middle of the nineteenth century,
uses this painting to support a symptomatic reading of Goya's art,
which he describes as 'the most sharply accurate mirror of the collapse
of the great religious and monarchic traditions of the West.'"-- Andrew Schulz in The Art Bulletin, Dec. 1, 1998
* 19th-Century Art, by H. W. Janson and Robert Rosenblum, 1984
on Wednesday,
the Feast of St. Nicholas.For more on
St. Francis Borgia, see
In Lieu of Rosebud.
