beside nudity

via the onion: art world relieved as thieves steal pretty terrible late period renoir work

"the palette was too rosy, the brushstrokes were something out of a college art class, and renoir's gift for capturing his subject's inner mystery seemed to have completely abandoned him—in short, it was garbage and i'm glad it's gone," said malcolm stewart, a curator at the art institute of chicago, which has done little to assist the police in their investigation."



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"beside nudity there is the strangeness of half-clothed bodies; what garments there are serve to emphasize the disorder of the body and show it to be all the more naked, all the more disordered. brutality and murder are further steps in the same direction. similarly prostitution, coarse language an everything to do with eroticism and infamy play their part in turning the world of sensual pleasure into one of ruin and degradation. our only real purpose is to squander our resource to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always want to be sure of the uselessness or the ruinousness of our extravagance. we want to feel as remote from the world where thrift is the rule as we can." /georges bataille, eroticism







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