“Boozer” Velasquez
… Poussin wrote the gods … and Velasquez collects a picture of some types roughest, rogue, the dregs of society, sluts, deep file and idlers. And the audience says – let’s laugh at the gods …
… Group is located in a vineyard in the heart of her seminude young man a few sluggish constitution puts on the head of another tramp wreath of vine leaves. Therefore, now this is Bacchus. The company, which met with a jug of wine, makes a libation: drinker osoloveli eyes, cheeks and lips were wreathed in smiles of silly similarity. And this, in fact, all …
… So orgy descends to an ordinary drinking, and Bacchus are in order. Besides the fact that we see here that we can perceive, so to speak, to touch anything else on the canvas there. There are no gods …
… But the gods – all the best in ourselves, that once separated from the mundane and unworthy, and has developed into the image of a perfect personality. Assert that no gods, – means not to see things in anything other than tangible device, then do not perceive the fragrance emitted by them, not to see the glowing halo of their ideal values. Or eventually to believe that life has no meaning, that things of the world exist by themselves …
… Titian and Poussin, each in its own way, are religious personalities: like Goethe, they have a pious feeling for Nature. Velazquez, the great atheist, a huge atheist. His brush with a broom as he swept away from the canvas of the gods. In his orgy of Bacchus is not just there, what is there – it’s shameless guise of Bacchus …
… But Bacchus – a concentration of natural overstimulation, ie, impulse, love of nature and open spaces for animals, the original Brotherhood of living beings and those who grant good fortune delight, that memory still gives the unfortunate humanity …
… Velazquez paved road on which it is our time – the time in which no gods … the era in which we instead speak of Dionysos, talking about alcoholism.