The Bad Art Cafe

The hall of Bulls

The hall of Bulls The painters superimposed the bulls over one another over many 100’s of years.

la parisienne

she's a fragment of a wet fresco painting from c.1500BC, but she looks like a modern day lady dancing in gay paris. she has a profile of dark painted big eyes, curled black hair, a tiny waist (we can't see, but know from other frescos), and red ruby lips. she looks like she could step out of a fashion magazine instead of a fresco on the minoan wall at the palace of knossos, crete. it isn't that long ago in human history, although sometimes we think it is . . . .

from: gardener's art through the ages:

". . . the spirit of la parisenne is also a product of the resultant verve of (the artist's) hand, and the simple, light delicacy of the techinque matches exactly the vivacity of the subject. it is the monoan sense of immediate life the minoan skill in catching it that strikes us as novel in the ancient world, and prophetic of great changes in man's outlook on nature."