Monday, October 7, 2013

Cruel Games

At the Colosseum by the British painter Harold Hume Piffard (1895-1938). Piffard depicts here an elegant Roman noblewoman watching comfortly the bloody spectacle below. A well constucted contrast indeed.
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  1. HelsOctober 7, 2013 at 8:30 PM

    Thank you.

    Bizarre, isn't it? How a beautiful, apparently gentle woman can tolerate cruelty and bloodlust. Yet the painting shows no cruelty or blood at all. The viewer has to imagine the contrast.

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  2. XenophonOctober 8, 2013 at 12:13 AM

    Absolutely. It's an intelligent painting, not as cheap as these blood and sand paintings normally were.

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