Tormentors Change, but Not the Torment
Musk offered him $5,000 to take it down - he refused.
How are your New Year’s goals going? Have you taken time to relax, à la the sitter in Morisot’s pastel, Daydreaming? Or are you getting more exercise like Degas’s Dancer Making Points?
To learn more about these paintings, check out this month's #FrenchPaintingsFriday research entries at https://nelson-atkins.org/french-painting.
pointed
/ˈpɔɪntɪd/
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adjective
- 1.having a sharpened or tapered tip or end."his face tapers to a pointed chin"
- 2.(of a remark or look) expressing criticism in a direct and unambiguous way."pointed comments were made about racial discrimination within the army"
tormentor
/tɔːˈmɛntə/

noun
a person who inflicts severe mental or physical suffering on someone.
"they help victims of domestic violence escape their tormentors"
Illuminated by gas footlights in the midst of a performance, a dancer “makes points,” or draws forms with her pointed foot. Edgar Degas's daring, asymmetrical composition and the angled perspective he produced by the diagonal lines of the floorboards emphasize the sensation of plunging space.
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