[Egmond Codfried]

Originally posted by Egmond Codfried:
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Blue blood is black blood.
Not all resembled Nat King Cole, but they were not whites, did not appear as whites. The images are confusing, as they held strange standards of beauty. They had other ideas of portraiture, and we need to approach all portraits as symbolistic of purpose, not realistic.

http://www.futilitycloset.com/2007/1...led-symbolism/



Symbolism in art. Look for it in wikipedia. Only ignorant trash will see theis image as realistic.
I was at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, which has a collection of symbolist paintings bought by the brother of Johanna Bonger, Andries Bonger in Paris. In my mind the Indonesians are very much into the symbolism, spirit world and things etherical, to explain his love for this style.



Andries Bonger, brother of Johanna van Gogh-Bonger [/QB]