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The Venus of Urbino, Titian<\/p><\/div>\n

Great, funny piece from Huffington<\/a> on how the Old Masters might have indulged in some obscurantist theorizing about their own work in order to be taken seriously, had they been contending with a postmodern academy. Sample from a contemporary Titian:<\/p>\n

“Woman, goddess, subject, object and signifier: Venus activates both the Utopian and Dystopian spaces of the Venetian Palazzo. By inducing an affirmative valence of feminine\/objective lucidity Venus poses a question: has our tendency to privatize desire further affirmed or disenfranchised her archetypal significance?”<\/p>\n

\u00a0The post concludes beautifully with:<\/p>\n

“Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.”<\/p>\n

– Rembrandt Van Rijn<\/p>\n

That<\/em>\u00a0is what an actual artist’s statement sounds like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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