By Charles Eldridge Marshall
What is Art ? What is Reality ?
Today the world of art has been on my mind. I saw this post of a marble statue from the 1700's - it's by an Italian artist named Francesco Quierolo sculpted from marble in 1754- 1759 and it's titled "Release from Deception". The netting you see was done by the sculptor and it is all in marble- carefully sculpted to look like netting. It took him seven years to complete this work. The reader should google search it and see it in much better pictures- it's truly a remarkable work of art. It is an extraordinary example of what humans are capable of doing- especially when inspired by God as in this sculpture. It represents man being released from sin by an angel. The scene has a Bible and a globe in it and the point is that earthly flesh will deceive you but God will lead you to the truth. God will release you from your deception if you seek him. You may agree or not with the philosophy behind it, but this is a magnificent work of art. It's truly remarkable for the detail and amazing talent that went into it. My humble opinion is that the message is also important. It has everything a great work of art should have and the artist should be celebrated for this accomplishment.
This work was created in 1907 by Pablo Picasso. It's called Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
It's considered a "masterpiece" of his and the title translates as "The Ladies of the Avenue", in other words, it's a picture of a group of prostitutes. Whores. It is worth many millions like most of Picasso's work. I would imagine it took him a grand total of a day or two to complete it. When mankind started admiring work like this is when we started to veer towards a state of confusion between what is beauty and what is not. Between what is real and what is not. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" we're told. The rulers of the art world back in the 20th century decided for all of us that this is beauty or at the very least, it's "brilliant" and represents something but they never seem to know quite what. I see it as representative of the beginning of the fall of mankind, of the human race. When these two works are compared to each other in the same sentence or are in the same building, that is when the ruling class began their distortion of what is good or "brilliant" and what is simply odd or esoteric. It is only brilliant in their minds. We need to all release ourselves from this deception. There are many, many other deceptions the Silent Tyrants have been doling out for over a century. We need to start calling things for what they are and stop playing games that the ruling class of our world feel compelled to offer us because it makes them feel superior that we don't "get it". I get it alright. I'm not saying it should be banned or removed or anything like that. I'm just saying, don't tell me that's good when it obviously is not and don't tell people it's brilliant with an attitude that if I don't agree then I'm not very bright. My humble opinion is that this is work you would find in an insane asylum- if we still had them. Isn't THAT brilliant of me ?
Regards,
CE Marshall
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