Art and Corruption with a straight face

Shane with Degas

G'day Possums,

t'other day Wombat Kinder No 2 and I ambled off to the NGV to have a look at the Degas exhibition "A New Vision."

We had all had seen the d'Orsay show in Canberra a few years ago and Mrs Wombat and I viewed many of them again last year at their home in Paris but there were works in this exhibition from other far flung collections that were important pieces to see.

NGV, Degas exhibition

After 130 years for some the idea of "A New Vision" might be a bit difficult to grasp, indeed I overheard one woman exclaim to her companion that, "There are too many portraits!" But what portraits; and what grasp of technique and expression, movement, light and place they convey.

Degas, Portrait of a Woman

It was not that Degas was deliberately or self consciously "New" for the sake of it but that he had to experiment to achieve what he wanted. After all he commented that there was nothing but planning and control in his art, " No art was  ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters."

And the portraits are so revealing, not just of the sitter's visages, many, his extended family but it's their humanity that is expressed and also Degas' humanity.

Degas, Edmondo and Therese Morbilli

His ability to appreciate the "off chance" moment and it's sublime definition of a physical action and his understanding of asymmetrical composition from the influence of Japanese prints are given full play in the quite explosive equestrian works and the ballet studio images which are anything but romantic.

These are not impressions they are reality.

Degas, Woman with Field Glasses

The large (2.00 m wide) oil sketch of the woman drying herself perhaps for me best summed up Degas incredible facility and sureness of vision.

"Drawing is not the form, it's a way of seeing the form."

The exhibition is excellent both in its scope and intention of demonstrating just how new Degas' vision was and still is.

Degas, Woman Drying Herself

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Silly Sam Halal Dastyari has resigned from the Labor front bench (under pressure from 90% of the press who support the Liarbrils) because of his accepting Chinese money to pay a $1600.00 travel bill.

1/ Death Stare Bishop and Horse-Shite Cormann see nothing wrong in having the taxpayer foot $6,000.00 worth of expense to attend a football match.

2/ Death Stare also sees nothing wrong in costing the taxpayer $30,000.00 to fly from Perth to Canberra from a party with her B/F to attend a meeting.

3/ Tony Rabid-the-Hun Abbott, Stuart Smiler Robert and Ian Chainsaw Macfarlane see nothing wrong in being "gifted" $250,000 worth of Rolex watches out of a plastic bag by Chinese instant noodle billionaire Li Ruipeng.

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4/ Apology for Attorney General, Bookshelves Brandis sees nothing wrong in elevating Theo Tavoularis,  Liarbril Party donor and defence lawyer for his son (whose charges of criminal damage were allegedly, conveniently dropped just before trial) to a $370,000.00 per year job on the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

5/  Chwissie The Whyning Pyne defends his deplorable time as incompetent Education Minister during Ruling Rabble Mk1 (with his usual, it's not our fault, it's theirs), in extending the streamlined visa program from universities to the private sector after a $65,000.00 "donation" to the Liarbril party by this Chinese education group.  Whyning Pyne insists the visa decision was made by the public service not the government, the same public service which advised the previous Labor government not to allow this to happen as there were going to be problems with it.

6/  Liarbril pollies in NSW have been found to have been found to have knowingly illegally solicited a political donation from a property developers: Joe Tripodi, Chris Hartcher, as well as Andrew Cornwell, and Samantha Brookes: former Liberal MP for The Entrance Chris Spence; former Liberal MP for Newcastle Tim Owen; former Liberal MP for Swansea Garry Edwards; former Liberal MP for Port Stephens Craig Baumann; former Liberal MP for Wyong Darren Webber; former Newcastle lord mayor Jeff McCloy; and solicitor Nick Di Girolamo and Former Liberal Londonderry MP Bart Bassett.
7/ And let's not leave the Tardis State (where all goes Backward under the Liabrils ) out... let's not forget their nice little taxpayer funded "donation" scam. Parakeelia!

NGV, Getting in on the act

Now, tell me again how serious the charges are against Sam Dastyari and how corrupt the unions are?  

Please tell me again, with a straight face!

Hoo-roo petals,

Shane