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  • perishthethought@lemm.eeOPtoartporn@lemm.ee•Bison hunt with Indian on horseback and on foot - Howling Wolf (1876)English
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    24 hours ago

    Thanks. The "Commodification and dispersal " section on that page is interesting.

    The roots of this commercialization can be traced to the late 19th century, when the founder of the Carlisle Indian School, Col. Richard Pratt began to teach entrepreneurial values to the Fort Marion prisoners of war. Artists held in this prison camp, such as Zotom and Howling Wolf were trained to create drawings on commission to “wealthy white patrons” in his efforts to assimilate the prisoners.

  • perishthethought@lemm.eeOPtoartporn@lemm.ee•Blue Ridge Falls - Bob Ross (1994)English
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    11 days ago

    I am posting this after I read this on the Wikipedia page for Bill Alexander, Ross’ art teacher:

    As Ross’s popularity grew, his relationship with Alexander became increasingly strained. In a 1991 interview with The New York Times, Alexander said of Ross: “He betrayed me. I invented ‘wet on wet’. I trained him, and he is copying me – what bothers me is not just that he betrayed me, but that he thinks he can do it better.” Alexander refers here to Bob Ross using some of his individual patter like “happy little trees” and borrowing some of his unique peculiarities. Art historians have pointed out that the “wet-on-wet” (or alla prima) technique actually originated in Flanders during the 15th century, and was used by Frans Hals, Diego Velázquez, Caravaggio, Paul Cézanne, John Singer Sargent, and Claude Monet, among many others.

    As Cyndi Lauper sang, money changes everything. And that sucks.

    Be like Bob, not Bill.