Dennis Hollingsworth

We'll now advance these folks displayed as in a trance...

I was reading Jacques' post Rendering, searching for what a nine year painting looks like, who Richard Dadd was and up pops a correlation to the artist <>criminal idea that I formulated on the fly in the post Notes over Coffee for Jacques: "...Some criminals like to pose as artists for elegant cover and some artists like to pose as criminals for the same reason..." --dark confirmation of that formulation. Hitler was a painter, writer and architectural enthusiast. Jean Genet. A graduate class on art and the dark side might be interesting to put together. That'll be good after the pro practice class packed with studies of grifting, confidence games and cults. Nasty stuff, I don't know if I have the constitution to immerse myself in that for a semester, but the art world is at least like the internet, a public way where you meet all types of people.

Then I came across another passage that ratified a desire I had for the installation of lighting on my work in exhibition:

There is no possible way that Fairy-Feller can be properly reproduced in any medium. It is literally three dimensional, so thick are the layers of paint that Dadd painstakingly applied. Using a magnifying glass, Dadd worked in minute, obsessive detail, even the original painting, which is in London, a part of the Tate Gallery collection, needs to be displayed with 'raking light' in order to be properly appreciated.

When Dadd finally stopped work on the painting, he immediately reproduced it in watercolor, and wrote a bizarre verse guidebook for it entitled Elimination of a Picture and its subject - called The Feller's Master Stroke. The guide starts with: "We'll now advance these folks displayed as in a trance...", and goes on to assign each of the hundreds of even minor characters a separate task...

Sheesh.
Yea, he's a kind of blogger too.

Creepy.