"View of Alpine" -- Moya del Pino -- oil on masonite -- 1940.

A US Post Office mural created for Alpine, TX, by Jose Moya del Pino ( 1891- 1969), a Spanish born artist who worked for most of his life in Bay area California.

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"IMG_9909 Max Beckmann. 1884-1950. Reclining Woman with Pinks. Femme couchée avec des roses. vers 1941. Hannover. Sprengel Museum." by jean louis mazieres is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

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Max Beckmann -- Quappi in Armchair -- Crayon and chalk on paper -- 1927 -- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

I've only learnt of this picture recently.
I've fallen so madly in love with it that I can't put into words why I love it so much.

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George Grosz -- Pillars Of Society -- Oil on canvas -- 1926 -- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie

I'm probably in the company of many here in being familiar with this pictorial indictment of the capitalist Germany of the mid twenties.

I can't make up my mind whether the unforgettable imagery is or was politically effective as a powerful agent and sustainer of radicalization, or whether, on the other hand, it is or was so overwhelmingly and indiscriminately polemical as to leave viewers in a state of general disgust about their society and ultimately in a state of demobilising despair about the possibility of change for the better.

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#WeimarRepublic

Christian Schad -- Two Girls -- 1928 -- Oil on Canvas -- Private Collection

Another picture from the 2006 exhibition catalogue "Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s" that struck me was Christian Schad's 1928 "Two Girls".

The catalogue entry claims that the picture would "descend into gross pornography" were the figure in the foreground to be shown looking at the viewer.

Rather than enter into a moralistic and unproductive discussion of this claim, I would rather consider whether the picture shows a couple's intimacy or the self- absorption of two isolated individuals.

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#Masturbation #Pornography #WeimarRepublic