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Frederick Edwin Church - 1861
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rnercle sh.itjust.works merde@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-27
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couldn't care less about the flag

the painting/lithograph is beautiful

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Edwin_Church
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JustPlainDave lemmy.zip JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-09
#2 · Quote Reply

There's a flag?

Either way, beautiful painting.
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Malica lemmy.zip Malica@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-27
#3 · Quote Reply

Took me forever to see the flag. Beautiful picture despite it.
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Wolf314159 startrek.website Wolf314159@startrek.website
Joined: 2024-07-03
#4 · Quote Reply

The flag is the image. You can't love this painting despite the flag without totally missing the point. Given the year it was made, this has to be a painting about America's Civil War. In this seemingly mundane landscape painting, I see so much blood and strife on the horizon for the country, the dawn of a bloody fight. Fitting, as it would have been painted early in the war.
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rnercle sh.itjust.works merde@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-27
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Wolf314159 wrote:
The flag is the image. You can't love this painting despite the flag without totally missing the point. Given the year it was made, this has to be a painting about America's Civil War. In this seemingly mundane landscape painting, I see so much blood and strife on the horizon for the country, the dawn of a bloody fight. Fitting, as it would have been painted early in the war.

missing the point was my point. Luckily he painted pointlessly beautiful subjects too :)
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