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July 11, 2022
These Latest Birdbrain Moves Made By Disposable Useful Idiots Pushing For A 'Communist Revolution' Prove Some People Are Way Too Stupid To Even Be Allowed Out In Public
The headlines the past few days have had many stories on protestors gluing themselves to the frames of famous and very precious and priceless paintings by some of the world’s most well loved and famous artists. The original “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci was originally painted in 1495 to 1489 on a dining hall wall at the monastery Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. Wikipedia says of it “Leonardo, as a painter, favoured oil painting, a medium which allows the artist to work slowly and make changes with ease. Fresco painting does not facilitate either of these objectives. Leonardo also sought a greater luminosity and intensity of light and shade (chiaroscuro) than could be achieved with fresco. Instead of painting with water-soluble paints onto wet plaster, laid freshly each day in sections, Leonardo painted The Last Supper on a wall sealed with a double layer of gesso, pitch, and mastic. Then, borrowing from panel painting, he added an undercoat of white lead to enhance the brightness of the oil and tempera that was applied on top. This was a method that had been described previously by Cennino Cennini in the 14th century. However, Cennini described the technique as being more risky than fresco painting, and recommended the use of "a secco" painting (on dry plaster) for the final touches alone.” All well and good, one of the master’s most famous paintings and along with Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco painting are perhaps the two most famous old Italian style paintings.
Another Italian artist known by the name of Giampietrino (Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli seems to be his real name) painted a copy of that masterpiece that currently hangs in the art collection of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and he was thought to have been a colleague of Leonardo’s. The first graphic above is a photo of the original, while the one immediately below is Giampietrino’s copy that seems to have been painted circa 1515 to 1520. This painting is not the only copy made of the original, but is the one that is involved in today’s column. This painting was made using the very beautiful, rich colors that comes with the time honored medium of Oil on Canvas. Perhaps a bit more information on the attributes and materials used in those oil based paints might be in order.
The Milan Art Institute says that the ingredients used in the manufacture of artist oils are the “simplest answer to this is pigment + oil (most commonly, linseed oil). The not-so-simple answer is that the ingredients can vary widely, depending on the pigments and oils used….Oils are the binder for the color pigments in oil paint. Cold-pressed linseed oil is one of the most common oils used. It is extracted from flax seed and used quite often as a preservative. It does seem that linseed oil yellows slightly more than other oils. However, linseed oil is the most resistant to cracking over time.
Other oils that can be used in oil paint include poppy seed oil, safflower oil, and walnut oil. There are other possibilities, but these are the most common. Although these oils yellow less over time, they are thinner and have a stronger tendency to crack as a painting ages.” Please note that ALL of these oils are derived from plant seeds and are NOT petroleum based products; this is vital to the reason I am writing this. One of my many hobbies is art, and although I have used many mediums over the years, my favorite medium is water color although I have painted a lot in oils and perhaps even more in acrylics because of its rapid drying time but the limiting factor is acrylics do not have the great transparent feature of oils nor the ease and longer time allowed for mixing the colors on canvas so I like sometimes to paint a base of acrylics with oils applied on top to obtain the richer color and more “pop” than acrylics alone can achieve.
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The pigments used come from a wide variety of sources depending on the color wanted which includes “natural sources that were either organic or inorganic. Pigments came from varying plants, charred animal bones, rocks, minerals, etc. These were the pigments used by the Old Masters….Synthetic pigments are chemically developed from petroleum substances, acids and other chemicals.” So a few of the pigments in MODERN oils are derived from some chemicals that are in petroleum and others are synthesized from chemicals to emulate the original all organic pigments, but most are still organic. A short video trailer showing oils in use follows -
And the most common base for those pigments is linseed oil also known as flaxseed oil or flax oil. “Linseed oil is extracted from flax seeds. The source of linseed oil and flaxseed oil is the same but the processing of both is different where linseed oil is used for industrial purposes and flaxseed oil is quite fit for human consumption. One of the oldest and commercially important crops grown in the cooler climates is Flax. These seeds make a healthy diet as they are rich in omega 3 fatty acids and in dietary fibre. The linseed oil is extracted from both the types of flax seeds and appear yellow in colour…. It is used in oil paints to make them more fluid, glossy and transparent. It is used as a preservative for wood, concrete, and an ingredient in paints, varnishes, and stains. Linseed Oil is also used in the traditional oil gilding to stick sheets of gold leaf to the substrate.
The linseed oil is non-toxic to human life. Because the source of linseed oil and flaxseed oil is the same but the processing of both is different where linseed oil is used for industrial purposes and flaxseed oil is quite fit for human consumption.”(source)
Even the turpentine used to clean the brushes is from coniferous trees of the genus Pinus, and is a semi fluid substance of resins dissolved in oil, all natural from the source tree.
I have gone through this not because I wanted you to think I have something to say about art or painting in particular, but to bring a bit of intelligent light on the pure idiocy and total lack of intelligent thought and knowledge that has been demonstrated by the recent groups of young naïve idiots protesting petroleum production by gluing themselves to the frames of a variety of very old Masters paintings. One idiot described by the media as a “young man” spray painted on the wall below the Da Vinci masterpiece copy “No New Oil” and I can only assume that he references drilling and searching for new deposits of petroleum falsely called my many Fossil Fuel. It is NOT from fossils, they are merely a deposited form of rock usually silicate in nature, but rather it is created by Mother Earth in an adiabatic process deep within the mantel of this beautiful planet. This reminds me of many other pranks done by those of very limited intellectual capacity and actual knowledge of whatever subject they are protesting such as the ones that rushed to help oil soaked penguins by washing them off with soap and water only to watch the sharks and killer whales eat them as they went out to sea. Yes sir, they saved them and cleaned them up not to watch them enjoy a full life but to become dinner to the predators in the area; they would have fared much better had they left them in their natural habitat instead of moving them to where they could be easily washed. Another example would be the idiotic ranting of Greta the young dork about “global warming” or the like, imitating Algore as best she can, while rambling on in some incoherent fashion doing her best imitation of Algore and making a fool of herself and her handlers. (note: “Algore” was Rush’s version of the Al Gore name, and I love it so I use it as well)
Of course, there were more than just that one painting used as a crutch for demonstration purposes; as the day before protesters also glued themselves to John Constable’s 1821 painting "The Hay Wain" at the National Gallery in London and two other activists who similarly glued themselves last month to the frame of an 1889 Vincent van Gogh painting "La Crau With Peach Trees in Blossom" at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. The organizers name was a group called “Just Stop Oil” and have organized several other events in the past few months including at the Manchester Art Gallery and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow with the same kind of stupid pranks. It appears some parents forgot to teach their children any social manners, but then those poor kids had to learn their lack of competence and intellectual skills from someone I guess. On the Just Stop Oil website they quote one of those young idiots as saying “I’m an artist, I love art, but instead of spending my time making art I’m taking actions like this, spending time in and out of cells, and being punished by our legal system for begging the government to let my generation have a future. We hold these works of art sacred, but what is more sacred than life itself?”
Please allow me to answer that one if I may; if you are indeed an artist, did you not learn anything about the media used in art? Especially about the media used by those old masters that were 100% natural products made from botanical oils and mostly rocks and such ground up for the coloration pigments? They were painted well before any synthetic pigments were created that might use petroleum distillates so WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU BABBLING ABOUT? Your ignorance is on full display for the whole world to see and if you are not embarrassed beyond belief then you are truly a very stupid idiot and most likely need someone around to wipe your face when you dive into your mushy bowl of soy milk soaked breakfast cereal. That group you are protesting for are using you as a stooge for their masters who pull their strings, the world wide communist revolution but then you are not quick enough nor intelligent enough nor educated enough to figure out something so obvious to those who actually look at life with open eyes. Yes siree, protest oil being drilled for by protesting the wrong kind of oil completely; that is like protesting a warm fire in the dead of a freezing blizzard because fire is what your ex-boss did to you because you’re so inept or a warm bowl of soup during a massive famine because you guttered the ball last time you went bowling. Now that makes a lot of sense for somebody as incompetent as you most obviously are. Please forgive me if I hurt your feelings (speaking collectively to all of them and not to any one in particular), but I really don’t care. You see, it seems to me that if you are smart enough to be offended then you would have been intelligent enough to see the absurdity and incongruity in your actions or following the orders of people that could care less than I do about your embarrassment when you may eventually figure things out.
By the way, on the website Just Stop Oil is proof that they are a communist revolutionary group; just look at the graphic they use to represent themselves. That is all that is required to show how evil they are and that they are controlled by powers that are much larger than they are. They are just temporary and disposable useful idiots and I would like to emphasize the term IDIOTS. Now I am wondering what those idiots will say when the trucks cannot deliver food to the retail outlets, or when the tractors cannot run to grow those crops or when the fertilizers cannot be produced nor delivered to the farmers or when they cannot warm themselves because the heat is not on nor is the air conditioning is not working or when the power is interrupted because the coal and natural gas fired generators are completely stopped.
Stupidity has its price, and it is not kind.
In this Twit video note the girl is claiming they are looking out for the future and I ask “What Future? You are killing yourselves as the results of your mandates are self destructive at best, and the whole world goes out with you at worst.”
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