テート・ギャラリーのインスタグラム(tate) - 7月5日 01時30分

In classical myth, Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, fell in love with Adonis, a huntsman. Duncan Grant used this idea as inspiration to make a painting with a female nude gazing after her departing lover. 💕

Grant emphasises that the painting ‘is not in any way an illustration of the subject, but a rhythm which came out of the subject — a rhythm outside the body.' Duncan Grant, Venus and Adonis c.1919, Tate collection.

[BIHAKUEN]UVシールド(UVShield)

stephenhallartist Wow artists are so scared of being seen as illustrating. This idea that true fine art must not illustrate is a modernist construct designed to justify its own major intentions and premise; of course Grant is illustrating the story but it is not illustration as such, as his purpose was to allow other factors to emerge beyond the story and serve his own artistic vision, not that of the author.

d4vidscott @annie.mayo curators and the high priestesses at the Modern are blind to this dross as they see it associated with the Bloomsbury set and a wider oeuvre! Grant’s credentials are impeccable and of course he had the gay gene and sensibility.

annie.mayo @d4vidscott it's interesting how my taste in art had become more refined since I took up life drawing last year. The other artists in the class and myself tend to "rate" the same stuff.

d4vidscott @annie.mayo you are a generous spirit! This painting should be dropped down the nearest well - not every piece an artist makes is truly great as anyone can see from this one!

annie.mayo @d4vidscott well I wish the head was in proportion to the body. The painting would work better.

annie.mayo @d4vidscott actually the more I look at it, the more I tend to agree with you!

>> 飲む日焼け止め！「UVシールド」を購入する