Art is not merely in the eye of the beholder. Also – we’ve come to conflate “high art” with art – and worse, “art” with things that are neither beautiful nor requiring skill, nor even comprehensible without referencing the world around them at the moment instead of a work in and of themselves. Brian Niemeier in an epic set of tweets defines the responsibility of the artist, which Bradford Walker gathers up [https://bradfordcwalker.blogspot.com/2018/06/narrative-warfare-yes-sjws-they-are.html]…
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I first learned of this painter with the following image of a woman at the archeol](GHOST_URL/content/images/2018/06/](GHOST_URL /content/images/2018/06/IW-02-Filippo-Palizzi-](GHOST_URL /content/images/2018/06/Ettore-Tito-La-mia-rossa-1888.jpg)…
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The first Whelan piece I remember as his work was the cover for The White Dragon. Always loved his attention to details, and the relative lack of people standing around looking cool. Did add one extra bit of Leia done by Gabriele Dell’Otto that ](GHOST_URL/content/images/2018/06/111418-fantasy_](GHOST_URL /content/images/2018/0](GHOST_URL/content/images](GHOST_URL/content/images/2018/ ](GHOST_URL/content/images/2018](GHOST_URL /content/images/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-05-at-12.47.13-AM.png)…
Courtesy of my friend the Didact, he brought [John Martin]( https://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-three-greatest-paintings]( GHOST_URL/content/images/2018/05/Martin_John_-The_Plains_of_Hea](GHOST_URL /content/images/2018/05/John_Martin-Great_Day_of_His_Wrath-_WGA14150.jpg)…