AdamSmith

Time for a little more spice...

which poster(s) here could this be?

I one time waited til the docent wasn't watching, then dared to touch -- for who knows what reason -- the 'White Flag' with my fingertip, when it hung in the Jale Art Gallery. Hope I didn't speed its physical demise. As all of Johns's works are now undergoing, those that is in which he used newsprint paper as the underlay to the encaustic. The acid in the cheap newsprint is burning those works up. The various Flags for that reason are all now gone very brown/black.

YES!!! Thank you!

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/487065

I kind of agree, @MsAnn! I always wondered a little bit at the cult of de Kooning. He has five or seven or so canvases that I love as Great. But is that enough? His mode spawned an awful lot of second-rate crapola.

Well, I must be then. i am 58 after all! All but used up!

When I was on the glide slope to becoming homeless & destitute in NYC, I let a lot of little boys take advantage of me whom, once I was prostrate out on the street with nothing, came & gathered me in their arms & held me up, until I could stand again on my own. RH obviously never was part of Part 1 of that parable! But maybe the whole of it here makes sense?

The Framers knew it inevitably would. And wrote in inevitable, though also inevitably slow-operating, iron protections.

Yes.

All I can say is, I like him a lot.

Your heart is great. But RH and I (and many others! ) have some of what is politely called history. We'll all be all right.

One is, of course, always living five or eight real lives. In Parallel. As it were. [That scene is not actually in Parallel Time, but close enough.]

@RockHard an hour ago sent me a very sweet conciliatory PM. All is good. Friends are going to argue with each other and call each other out on this or that. Sometimes it will have a strong basis in reality; other times it will arise from a simple misunderstanding of some underlying fact. Dinna fret! We are all friends here. And, I think, durable friends. Unlike (just can't resist ) at some other foraminifera.

'The Connoisseur', by N. Rockwell. Rockwell in the '50s said that if he were just starting out then, he would absolutely be working in the style of the Abstract Expressionists. When de Kooning first saw this piece, he exclaimed, 'Square inch by square inch, it's better than Jackson!'

Many pure-blood Spanish in Mexico. (I will, somewhat oddly, get hit with 'racist' for saying that.) And, our interlocutor's other point, why should we not pursue our 'pure' erotic interests? (Mine happen to be native central/south Americans.)