Comments on: Couture, Thomas

By: Dano

Dano — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 14:59:49 +0000

In reply to jp. Thanks, JP!

By: jp

jp — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:41:26 +0000

this painting is now in the national gallery of ireland

http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/objects/8363/la-peinture-realiste?ctx=773984dd-a944-436c-9dbc-a30639c049fa&idx=3

I saw it on Tuesday

By: Dano

Dano — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 16:26:29 +0000

In reply to Paulina.

Hi Paulina,

Thank you for visiting Porkopolis.org. As I said in my Editor’s Note below the picture, Couture intended this painting as a “satire on realism”. I think your observations are correct, and there are a number of ways to interpret various aspects of this work. I am undecided on the blue paper you mention – is the paper actually just a shade of blue, is the artist just starting to layout his initial drawing – Interpretation is part of the pleasure of appreciating art! There is much more about Thomas Couture at the beautiful van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands. You can visit on line at: http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/.

Please keep studying art. I would suggest the “Les Porcs en Plein Air” exhibition here as a good place to start if you are also a fan of pigs. https://www.porkopolis.org/art-museum/exhibitions/les-porcs-en-plein-air/.

Root on,
Dan
Editor, Curator and Swineherd at Porkopolis.org

By: Paulina

Paulina — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 19:40:26 +0000

In the picture “A Realist” you can see a person wich is sitting on a head of a scalp wich is right in the center of the room (picture). As yo can see at the right side there is a pig right on the table but if you look close you can see that the person is looking at it but doesn’t draw the pig but he is drawing the whole picture blue you can see that the drawer really didn’t like realism.