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"What am I proud of in retrospect on that February 29, 1932? Certainly not the portraits of the so-called high society, the decadent elite in many respects. That's how I earned my living. No, I'm proud of a few paintings that hold a mirror up to my contemporaries. ... Although pride is the wrong word. Take 'Garrote vil'. Just sketching the gawkers on the balconies, who had paid a fortune for their box seats, sometimes made me want to burst with rage and tear the canvas to shreds. But then I thought that this testament to human perversity might one day make a small contribution to the abolition of the death penalty. ... I only fear that future generations will come up with even more hideous cruelties. Perhaps something more subtle. Someone will call it 'The Banality of Evil'."
The idea of condemning anyone to death turns my stomach. Watching would be impossible.
ReplyDeleteI do not like this thought, either, Mimi.
DeleteDeath would be too good for certain presidents and other contemporaries.
Better eternal wandering and queueing in the grey halls of some infinite bureaucracy, where nothing is ever accomplished, and ever more complicated forms are to be filled out (in triplicate), and the air smells of boiled cabbage, and wet wool, and stale farts, and despair.
Oh well, and may those nuthouse residents' testicles be painfully rotting ... ahhh! ... and may all their teeth fall out ... except of one - for toothache ... 59 minutes per hour.
The peace of the night! ;-)
Malgrat que diuen que conèixer la història és la millor manera d’evitar repetir els mateixos errors, sembla evident que la humanitat sempre acaba demostrant una inquietant capacitat no només per reiterar-los, sinó per amplificar-los encara amb més crueltat.
ReplyDeleteSpot on, dear Mc!
DeleteHi Sean - sadly new generations dream up worse atrocities ... nothing changes. Cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteAnd that's what 'they' call evolution and progress.
DeleteHugs, Hilary.
Aquesta és la idea, tot i que la realitat és ben diferent per a molts, malauradament...
ReplyDeleteKisses, Sean.
Humanity doesn't seem to be evolving for the better.
DeletePetonets, Paula.
De moment, en algunes parts del món, la pena de mort, s'ha abolit. El pintor pot estar content. Desgracidament, no pas a tot arreu.
ReplyDeleteI ja tenim el punt de vista del pintor, que trobo ben encertat i que em sembla que s'adiu molt a un personartge com Ramon Casas.
Moltes gràcies, altra vegada, per completar els punts de vista dels diferents personatges de la pintura.
Aquest post també estarà enllaçat al meu blog a la pregunta sobre el pintor.
M'encanten aquests joc i aquestes complicitats de blog a blog…
Abraçades, Sean!
My pleasure, dear Carme.
DeleteAbraçades!
Ojalá que la abolición de la pena de muerte, sea una realidad en todo el mundo.
ReplyDeleteUn placer pasar a leerte.
Un abrazo
Thank you very much for your com(pli)ment. ;-)
DeleteBesitos, Nuria.