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Patrick Garner's avatar

Balthus has never particularly moved me. But that's neither here nor there as we're all moved by different imagery. Still, I completely support your opinions throughout the piece. Watching the world take shockingly illiberal turns is a daily adventure. (Btw, you write, "The artist, born in 1908, would have been 29 today." Wouldn't that be 116?)

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Peter Joslin's avatar

While in grad school, many of my classmates, and I, considered Balthus one of the great 20th century painters. My opinion has not changed. He was idolized simply for his formidable work; my, have things changed. To the post-liberalists of the world, like Hannah Black, I say, no one is making you look at anything and who are you to dictate the destruction of a work of art?

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