Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for March 06, 2020

“Truer words, etc. Etc.!”

I wonder if Gerry Rasmussen wrote that?

He hasn’t got l’Origine du monde?

Artists have statements?

all sweeping statements are informative to everybody

Art is whatever you can get away with. See Statue of Dog Poop, San Jose, CA. The artist got away with $500,000.

I concern myself with corporate statements.

A ‘good’ artist statement can sell ‘bad’ art.

Most of the time when I read those statements, I am more confused about the art.

Carracci’s Allegory of Truth and Time is 16th C.

Basically since the Romantic era. Before that, they were paid employees who did what their patrons demanded.

The very essence of the self-luminescent quintessence of pure baloney, etc.

Anne-François-Louis Janmot (21 May 1814 – 1 June 1892) was a French painter and poet. His most significant work, a cycle of 18 paintings and 16 drawings, with verse, called The Poem of the Soul, occupied him for 40 years.

La Vérité sortant du puits armée de son martinet pour châtier l’humanité (English: Truth coming from the well armed with her whip to chastise mankind ) is an 1896 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.

Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France.

Annibale Carracci was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. An allegory of Truth and Time

The Voyage of Life is a series of paintings created by Thomas Cole in 1842, representing an allegory of the four stages of human life: childhood, youth, manhood, and old age.

Philistine.