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So many paintings, so little that is honest.
I am not a fan of recreating images of quaint natives in present day costume or recreations of days gone by. The trend toward the nostalgic, is intellectually dishonest and an easy prey for an artist who is too lazy to come up with an original point of view. Nostalgia is a dangerous trend, it is fascist, by its very nature. It is the kind of art that was promoted by Hitler in the Third Reich, charming quaint pictures of the perfect German family in their country costumes.
In that vein, I think the paintings of the Tibetans are exploitive, as are the colorful Indians of the West. I happen to have many Tibetan friends and I think that they would find these paintings condescending.
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