Monday, September 17, 2007

Deadstock Hitler Canvas'

The Fuhrer's subject matter was a bit lacking... son's technique was off tha chain tho'.



Posted by thelossprevention.com at 8:58 PM

1 comment:

Unknown said...

check out
The Alternative Hypothesis
by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

"Adolf Hitler: fail.

He left the Fine Art Academy and shuffled away head bowed to lose himself in the crowds of Vienna. The city had been glorious, poetic, Baroque, imperial, the theatre of his expectations; now it was shrinking to the narrow frame of his failure. Would he still love it? Would he still love himself?

Such were the events on this 8th October, 1908. A jury of painters, engravers, draughtsmen and architects had decided the young man’s case unwavering: clumsy lines; muddled composition; lack of technique; banal imagination. It had taken no more than a minute and they had had no qualms about announcing their decision. Adolf Hitler had no future.

What would have happened if the Fine Art Academy had decided otherwise? What would have happened if, in that same minute, the jury had accepted Adolf Hitler? That minute would have changed the course of a life, but would also have changed the course of the world. What would have become of the twentieth century without Nazism? Would there have been a Second World War, fifty-five million deaths, six million of them Jews, in a universe where Adolf Hitler had been a painter?"

September 18, 2007 at 12:40 PM

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