Funny how the Swiss ended up with the unclaimed loot. Per usual. No @#$% ever sticks to the Swiss — just other people’s money. If I ever run out of tasteless witticisms we could always have a Pick on the Swiss Week.

When it came to Chiseling and Casting, Arno Breker at least refutes the specious claim that they never produced any art of any note.

Still there is the funny story about the Exhibition of Decadent Art with the very long queues to get in.

OTOH he may have been so busy churning out the goods (and putting his Johann Hancock on napkins and restaurant receipts), going to endless openings, hobnobbing with the high and mighty and holding interminable interviews that he might not have had much time for anything else.

On the third hand, yeah, he probably would have—for the sake of Art, of course…
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14735789909391486?journalCode=rctc19
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4140244

“@DNW:

I’ve missed your sober, philosophical …”

LOL

I figured I would try doing something more constructive for awhile: chopping wood, sorting tools, dusting off the barbells; trying to finish up some Trust business.

Then when I returned to the land of daily outrage, I hoped I would have a more temperate, tolerant, equable view of the pranks and scams of, and the structural damage done by, those constantly beavering organisms of the left.

But really, after even a short vacation away from them. they just look all that much worse. And I find myself unable to pretend even that occasionally conditional wisp of potential fellow fellow feeling for them should they somehow “turn from their sins and repent”.

Now, regarding this last, I think that despite the biblical language and references some of us around here use, that for all purposes of official exchange we wear the masks of skepticism or a kind of non militant atheism, as a default.

But … when you look at the behavior of these people, at their casually cynical, smirkingly deceitful self-dealing, and at the social destruction they spread and the human costs resulting from their vicious lives spent in vainglory and hedonic nihilism, then, you are bound to say that: If there were a God, and if He were all good, and all true, neither deceiving nor capable of being deceived – and by His very nature incapable of admitting evil into his presence, then, you would have to conclude that 90% of these damned souls would just automatically be flung into the outer darkness by … their … own … internal … moral inertia.

I’ve missed your sober, philosophical takes!

🙂

He’d have gassed all the Art Dealers. Oh wait.. he did.

Still it’s possible that artistic success might have narrowed his scope.

We’d, my wife and I, always buy series we liked to save to watch again. With most of what is put out now dreck, in our retirement, we have dozens of series and movies we like to rewatch whenever. “Justified” is a favorite. Currently we are rewatching the 2 seasons of Nero Wolfe.

Aggie:

That rings a bell.

I would note that Picasso and Dali, whatever one might think of their radical modern paintings, were truly artists who had developed massive technique, which would put to shame all the current poseurs.