fabrizio19691969
A Fixture
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comimg in november in my store,54,75,and bust…..please in this post i present history not politically ideas!!!!!
exactly my friendNicely done and a good likeness. I'd paint it.
It's funny isn't it: There are people who'd think nothing of painting Genghis Khan or Attila or Caesar or Vlad Tepes (all of them let's face it perpetrators of historical atrocities on a massive scale), but would come out in a rash and reach for the smelling salts at the mere suggestion of painting a Mussolini or Hitler figure. I've never understood that logic.
Each to their own I guess, but as you say it's history. And this hobby is all about painting history. Painting it doesn't mean you're endorsing or glorifying it.
- Steve
Painting it doesn't mean you're endorsing or glorifying it.
I wonder, how popular a model / bust of Osama bin Laden, Muammar Gaddafi or Fidel Castro would be....
There's also the time dimension - there are still many people around whose families suffered from the wars of the last century who may wonder at the popularity of some figures and consider them, if not offensive, then inapropriate.
Case in point, I was at a BBQ in early summer and met a young lady who was discussing her art work. When I showed her mine, she went full “woke” on me and just about had a mental break down. She flipped out on seeing the German Military flag on two of my dios and asking how I could do such a thing.
That's pretty funny, maybe you should've included a trigger warning.