Art
22 January 2010
Boing Boing has an interesting post up about an artist I wasn’t familiar with.
Arnold Bocklinwas a 19th century symbolist painter whose work influenced and inspired Salvador Dali, Sergi Rachmaninoff, Marcel Duchamp and H. R. Giger. Adolph Hitler owned eleven of his paintings and cited Bocklin as his favorite painter.
Check it out. Here’s what must be Hilter’s favorite painting. It’s title? The Isle of the Dead.
That painting is actually quite cool. Hitler was not a bad realist himself:
http://www.snyderstreasures.com/pages/hartworks.htm
I am surprised that no one has bought his works and burned them just for fun.
Not that it is necessarily contradictory, but it is strange that such a foul piece of filth was an artist.