We take up again our art history studies which we done begun a year or two ago. We recall the period known as "Mannerism" as being a particularly fecund era for our purposes and return to it. Our researches have informed us that Mannerism was a reaction to the Renaissance in that Mannerist painters realized they couldn't paint as good as Michelangelo, da Vinci and those guys, which we see immediately in the first image below:
Madonna of the Long Neck. Parmigianino, 1535-1540.
In Madonna of the Long Neck, the artist, who shortly gave up painting for cheese-making, faithfully depicts a WNBA player in a team huddle holding--barely--the team's point guard who fainted. Painted over a five year period He of the Cheese was rushed completing the commission of his patron and we see certain evidences of this, viz:
-He didn't finish the sky, he left it a rust color.
-Unless those are not columns but pre-industrial smokestacks belching forth their effluence.
-If they are columns they don't, like, support anything.
-Madonna's teammates are all crammed in at left.
-The figure at bottom right had to be minituarized and crammed in at the last minute on the demand of the patron who bargained for a representation of Saint Jerome.
We draw parallels here to a contemporary painting Madonna of the Fat Ass:
Next up we have:
Sanatorium Staff Admitting a Patient, Jan Sanders van Hemessen, 1540.
No, not really, we introduce a bit of levity now and then to our studies as aid to learning, the real title of that painting is The Tearful Bride and that's supposed to be a girl. Really.
Christ Stopped for DUI Wearing a Shag Sweater with a Square Halo, OR Christ in Prayer, Doménikos Theotokópulos OR El Greco, 1595-1597.
We conclude our studies for today with two works from Mannerism's Pornographic School:
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, Simon Garfunkel OR Bronzino, 1540-1545, and
Diana the Archer Side Saddle Reverse Cowgirl Position Necrophilia with Voyeuristic Angel, Bartholomäus Spranger, 1582.
In Madonna of the Long Neck, the artist, who shortly gave up painting for cheese-making, faithfully depicts a WNBA player in a team huddle holding--barely--the team's point guard who fainted. Painted over a five year period He of the Cheese was rushed completing the commission of his patron and we see certain evidences of this, viz:
-He didn't finish the sky, he left it a rust color.
-Unless those are not columns but pre-industrial smokestacks belching forth their effluence.
-If they are columns they don't, like, support anything.
-Madonna's teammates are all crammed in at left.
-The figure at bottom right had to be minituarized and crammed in at the last minute on the demand of the patron who bargained for a representation of Saint Jerome.
We draw parallels here to a contemporary painting Madonna of the Fat Ass:
Next up we have:
No, not really, we introduce a bit of levity now and then to our studies as aid to learning, the real title of that painting is The Tearful Bride and that's supposed to be a girl. Really.
We conclude our studies for today with two works from Mannerism's Pornographic School:
