I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

LOL - hadn't noticed that Blue.

Lindasa - I was amazed too when I first saw the painting. It was rather funny to see people crowding around it too.

More art to come....speaking of "talking snakes" (as in Faux News, soothsayers, Karl Rove,etc....) here is a Rennaisance Era masterpiece that we modern onlookers could think of when we wonder how some people treat facts. They do it with alchemy...(insert wicked witch laugh here). Here is Hieronymus Bosch depicting the earstwhile science of alchemy in Garden of Earthly Delights:

Wow - there's a lot in that painting...per Huff Post....The "liberal news reporter," along with the professor clutching Darwin's Origin Of Species and the judge weeping over Roe vs. Wade are huddled in the lower right hand corner of the painting, next to Satan. (The pregnant woman is also in Satan's corner.)

Discussing politics via art - clever.

As far as real art (I'm sure One Nation has artistic qualities), an art appreciater, I am not.  Been to the Vatican, Louvre, Picasso museum and all I can say is that I'm more Picasso than ML. I once bought a piece of art, (well, she signed it and it was her print cause the gliclee and original version was out of my reach) from a Hawaiian artist and got really excited to see it hung in George Clooney's livingroom in the movie The Descendants (30 years later).

I respond this woman's art...Alexandra Nechita, and that was when she was age 12.  I love color over subtleness, I guess.

The bible does address the rich as takers, though.  Who takes seems to be the pivot point.

How about a little paganism.... (plus I like Maxfield Parrish)

LOL Blue - now this is Art Appreciation!

Blue, after clicking on your link, I'm *REALLY* LMBO!!  (Great minds think alike . . . I love that the annotator picked up on the way Lincoln is depicted -- as though he just finished a song and dance number.)

Thanks for the chuckles.

Linda

Blue, that did work....the one guy in business suit was Ronald Reagan...sigh !!!  And then there was a Gay marine who was kicked out......hmmm. 

Kam...your right. politics as art. 

Jackie

OMG, hilarious!!

Not on this site often enuf to know what the original picture was, but using my imagination, I can assume it was something about the USA, "Founding Fathers" and well, religion.  SO, I thought those you don't know about Thomas Jefferson might appreciate learning about his Faithhttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/How-Thomas-Jefferson-Created-His-Own-Bible.html

Loved HL's DH response - "which God?" - really perfect, isn't it.  Also often think of the words on the Statue of Liberty when I hear people trying to impose their views about the USA - which never seem to jive with those glorious words....beautiful words, and a wonderful gateway to the USA.

A shout out to Sandy - if there were a like button, I'd click it.  Seems the thread started as a "contrast" to the political opinions of most of the women who post on this thread has become a lightening rod.  Dosen't effect this house - we've survived attacks from this and other websites.  Hang in there all - IGNORE, IGNORE, IGNORE. Please just IGNORE.  Nothing of value to learn, as HL says, why would you read John Birch Society propaganda.  If ya wanna read GOOD STUFF - I suggest Howard Zinn's The People's History of the United States.

Happy today to all....snow is coming. Yeah!

Thanks Rosemary, hadn't heard of him before...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Eichenberg  Love that woodcut

Thank you, Rosemary!  That's beautiful. 

I do like the way artists have historically reimagined the nativity story (and other Bible stories), setting them in their own place and time . . . such that Italian artists render them in a vaguely Tuscan landscape, Flemish artists in a northern European village, etc.  I guess you could attribute that to a failure of imagination or to insularity (how was a 16th century Flemish artist supposed to know what the landscape and people of the eastern Mediterranean looked like?), but I also think it was a way to  increase the emotional impact on the people viewing the picture.

We were talking about Bruegel the other day . . . one of the most powerful religious paintings I've ever seen is Bruegel (the elder)'s depiction of Herod's massacre of the innocents.  I saw it when I was in Brussels and was stopped dead in my tracks.  It's totally anachronistic - set in a snowy landscape, Herod's soldier's are wearing contemporary uniforms - but wow, does it pack a horrifying punch.  You can't help but think of future massacres and genocides.  I don't think the painting would be nearly as powerful if its setting were more historically accurate . . . it would distance the viewer, remind them that they were looking at something that happened long ago and far away, instead of creating this incredible sense of immediacy. 

If that means making Jesus look northern European, well, maybe there was value in that . . . once.  It's a bit more problematic now, in a multicultural society in an interconnected world.

(In some ways, oddly, this has me thinking of the way Jews are instructed to tell the Passover story.  In my understanding, it's not supposed to be heard as something that happened to your ancestors, but related to as something that we're actually experiencing.)

Linda

(Edited because there weren't as many posts in between as I thought!)

I'm puzzled by the fussing over employers cutting hours so they don't have to comply with the AHA. Weren't employers doing that already? Weren't many keeping hours under a minimum so they didn't have to pay health benefits? Why was it OK then, but not OK now?

In my opinion, it's bad in any case, but I think it reflects more on the employer than the AHA.

Mary