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Here's one I'm fond of from The Hyde Collection upstate, though it's European appropriation / colonialism etc--yet it's beautiful and affectionate I think. By Rubens.
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Same for Velázquez, no? Art requires no moral rectitude on the part of the artist said Thomas Aquinas. I was walking on the rocky shore of LI Sound yesterday, having just heard some of Wagner's Parsifal in the car, thinking how lucky we are that Hitler wasn't a good painter.
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PS I believe it's the right of artists to appropriate anything they please. But I never say this. Wouldn't be wise. As for colonialism: Edward Said loved (LOVED) Kipling. Esp KIM. AND Conrad. So we shan't blame the artists. Said's finding of complicity never diminished their work
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