cold weapons and Orientalism

[kronckew]

Unless he is rather well-endowed, the pistol looks like it will hit him in the thigh, probably puncturing his inferior vena cava, and he'd bleed out in less than a minute. Even if well-endowed, it's hit him there after passing thru his thingy. I live by a maxim that I will never point a gun at something I do not want to kill. Especially if it is me. Even unloaded.

[gp]

orientalism is not a kind of romantic reflection of the past, approx. a century ago, but also seems to have a little revival at the present.

Enclosed a nice painting of a young girl with dagger by a Spanish painter.

Painter : Miguel Ángel Rossi
Date: 2024
Material: Oil on canvas
Size : 60 cm x 50 cm

[David R]

I would suggest one exception to the fantasists, the above Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin. His paintings of the Central Asian campaigns were realistic enough that both the Austrian and the Russian authorities forbade their troops from visiting his exhibitions.

[gp]

Originally Posted by David R

I would suggest one exception to the fantasists, the above Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin. His paintings of the Central Asian campaigns were realistic enough that both the Austrian and the Russian authorities forbade their troops from visiting his exhibitions.

interesting sites on him and his work:

https://www.wikiart.org/en/vasily-vereshchagin/

https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/di...coll4/id/47935

https://archive.org/details/exhibiti...ge/n7/mode/2up

[David R]

Nice links to some I've not seen before. Thank you.