Wedding Under a Green Sky

By David BrookMarch 5, 2013

Oil on Canvas

Artist’s Statement: Jewish wedding painted after seeing a quote from Hitler, “Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.”

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David Brook lives in Sydney, Australia, and has been selling his art since he was in high school. He is currently painting and doing web illustrations.

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Judy Freed Israel April 10, 2013

Yes he did hate abstract art. He had pretensions to being an artist, so he had strong opinions about art. There were a lot of things he hated. Jews, Gypsies, Blacks, retarded people, Communists, ..... he was very opinionated about a lot of things. If Rock and Roll had existed in his day, he would have hated it. Reply

Anonymous kingston, ny April 10, 2013

two thumbs up! thank you Reply

joe jew york April 10, 2013

the mouse statement interestingly enough, the Rebbe also dissuaded the use of non-kosher animals to be seen for kids in their learning process, and (in an edited/printed talk) the Rebbe goes so far as to specifically pick on a "mouse' that was used in a jewish children's book and how it "is not for the child's benefit to have the image of the mouse there"... Reply

Dorene Schwartz-Weitz Edison, N.J. April 9, 2013

Yes, Hitler (yimach shemo) hated Modern Art. He organized the largest attended exhibit in Europe, "Entartete Kunst" of what he termed "Degenerate Art". Volumes have been written on this. Only 6 of the 100 artists' whose works were exhibited were Jewish. Hitler was vehemently against Fraud especially his promotion of the art of children, the insane or retarded. Works of art had to comply with specific criteria, with renderings of the human body needing to be precise in meeting Classical form.
His view of America/Cartoons/and mice as he equated Jews to is expressed here:
"Mickey Mouse is the most miserable ideal ever revealed ... Healthy emotions tell every independent young man and every honorable youth that the dirty and filth-covered vermin, the greatest bacteria carrier in the animal kingdom, cannot be the ideal type of animal ... Away with Jewish brutalization of the people! Down with Mickey Mouse! Wear the Swastika Cross!" newspaper article, Pomerania, Germany mid 1930's. Reply

Fraidel Leah Passaic April 9, 2013

Beautiful painting - very special. Reply

Anonymous Albany, NY/USA April 9, 2013

I don't like the picture. Am I a bad person? I don't like the picture. Am I a bad person for having the "wrong" preferences? Reply

Shevy NY April 8, 2013

I love the painting! But I'm confused about Hitler's statement. Did he hate abstract art along with Jews, gypsies, and blacks? Reply

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David Brook lives in Sydney, Australia, and has been selling his art since he was in high school. He is currently painting and doing web illustrations.

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