tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589105760911453392.post587913501651771165..comments2024-03-17T09:48:51.194-07:00Comments on Art Contrarian: Leonor Fini: Image Unsafe for Work!!Donald Pittengerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307228686847434740noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589105760911453392.post-69436797875223776092012-06-05T18:19:48.860-07:002012-06-05T18:19:48.860-07:00I agree with anonymous above....
You are free to ...I agree with anonymous above....<br /><br />You are free to do what you want, Mr. Pittenger, but try to think before you speak. Try to go a little deeper, or else, stick to critiquing....I don't know......recycling boxes or something of little consequence. <br /><br />Artists paint to inhabit their soul: try to answer, or at least see from yours...<br /><br />The only diminishment in this "modern art' *If you insist on categorizing, is in your grey matter. <br /><br />For me, it is still stunning, powerful, shamanic work. <br />So, give up contrarianism: try hard-earned optimism or investment- you would get more respect. Contrarianism is parasitic. <br /><br />Salut Leonor!<br />Salut Kot, mon oncle!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589105760911453392.post-55109229362506426172012-02-08T19:13:30.467-08:002012-02-08T19:13:30.467-08:00I found your article pretentious, disgustingly pat...I found your article pretentious, disgustingly patronizing, and badly written to boot. How amusing that such an ugly man could pick apart the features of a woman like Leonor Fini, who was more woman and more man, and certainly more artist than you will every be. Furthermore, describing the photographer Dora Maar as 'Picasso's Squeeze' was offensive. It was unfortunate that she allowed herself to be psychologically abused and tortured by what I consider a mediocre artist who's genius was in self promotion and promotion of a brutal arrogance as something virile and attractive. I can assure you, that poisonous little man with biting black eyes would not make it to coffee with most women today. <br /><br />You practically dismiss the female surrealists relative to their male counterparts. This is most backwards and pretentious of you. Having studied the works of both the male and female surrealists, I believe the women sit closer to the well of the unconscious than the men, whose paradigm was too often steeped in their male insecurities and misogyny. Also, Frida Khalo is not overvalued. If anything, Mr. Picasso is, and I felt so from when I was a girl. <br /><br />It should not astonish you so that women artists would be beautiful, like that tired old nut that beauty and brains are simply too much in one person, and envy of beauty so purile that the person (usually woman's) intellectual and creative gifts are sneered at, as you have done, even as you post an exquisitely beautiful shot of Fini.<br /><br />I agree with you on your contrarian stance on much of modern art, but here, you betray great ugliness and ignorance and the all too common misogyny, of shall we say delicately, 'unattractive' men....<br /><br />Or shall I go into a more pointed analysis of your physical faults, as you did with Fini?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com