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Stegiel's avatar

Breton in contrast to many praised Rousseau and promoted him as an outstanding artist. He found in Rousseau Surrealism

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Stegiel's avatar

The inheritance tax forced the sale and the idea that the State could have created a museum keeping the collection intact but preferred to destroy it by the selling is the spleen

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Stegiel's avatar

The official state represses all thought it finds disagreeable and that is universal,

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Would Valentine prefer that no one wanted to pay big money for Breton's collection.

What did Valentine want if he also didn't want a French state owned Breton museum.

Yet Valentine didn't criticise the daughter for selling it.

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

Seems to amount to punishing someone because their father was a painter. The state is indeed a sucking monster, bloodsuckers of immense proportion, a barnacle grown to 10 times the size of the whale.

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Zippy's avatar

What pray (prey) tell is the purpose of this posting? It has no correspondence to the playful image borrowed from Rousseau at the top of the page.

Meanwhile please check out this reference which, among other things contains commentaries on the Surrealist artists http://www.artandphysics.com

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

I missed seeing the playful Rousseau image.

I shall look again for it.

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