August 26th, 2010
William Koch on the Disciples of Ugliness
Tags/ Posted by Mark KerstetterThe big fat Italian guys with the Chinese characters tattooed onto their man titties sit in the steam room with me and say Jimmie and Hey Jimmie and Jimmie Jimmie.continue reading this poem
In the early half of the eighteen hundreds the French Neo-Classical painter Ingres sneeringly described the younger Romantic painter Delacroix as “a disciple of ugliness”. A century later the French novelist Jean Genet claimed that “Ugliness is Beauty at rest.” Between these two events stretches the Romantic revolution in art.
