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April 01, 2007
An old style banquet and an old style portrait from another world of yesteryear that I have no sense of:
Dirck Barendsz, Banquet of Eighteen Guardsmen of Squad L, Amsterdam, 1566, Oil on panel
This painting is known as the 'Perch Eaters' because the fish they are eating is perch. It is what you would find in an art gallery tucked away in some secluded part of inner Sydney; away from the pulp trash, brutality and horrors of the streets. The painting belongs to the privatised world of the cultural and bussiness elite.
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