Above, Hampstead Heath by John Constable. Is this an example of art that is racially inflammatory? Or are privileged, and largely white liberals, just getting a little paranoid again?
Craig Simpson – The Telegraph.co.uk March 14, 2024
The Fitzwilliam Museum has suggested that paintings of the British countryside evoke dark “nationalist feelings”.
The museum, owned by the University of Cambridge, has undertaken an overhaul of its displays, in a move that its director insisted was not “woke”.
Luke Syson said last week: “I would love to think that there’s a way of telling these larger, more inclusive histories that doesn’t feel as if it requires a push-back from those who try to suggest that any interest at all in [this work is] what would now be called ‘woke’.”
The new signage states that pictures of “rolling English hills” can stir feelings of “pride towards a homeland”.
However, in a gallery displaying a bucolic work by Constable, visitors are informed that “there is a darker side” to the “nationalist feeling” evoked by images of the British countryside.
It states that this national sentiment comes with “the implication that only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong”.
Paintings at the Fitzwilliam have been reordered into themed categories, in a shake-up the museum’s director hopes will make the gallery’s displays “inclusive and representative”.
Categories include Men Looking at Women, Identity, Migration and Movement, and Nature, which includes English landscapes by Constable, Gainsborough and Palmer, and French scenes by Pissarro, Renoir, Monet and Cézanne.
A sign for the Nature gallery states: “Landscape paintings were also always entangled with national identity.
“The countryside was seen as a direct link to the past, and therefore a true reflection of the essence of a nation.
“Paintings showing rolling English hills or lush French fields reinforced loyalty and pride towards a homeland.
“The darker side of evoking this nationalist feeling is the implication that only those with a historical tie to the land have a right to belong.”
The claims about the depiction of landscapes comes after the charity umbrella group Wildlife and Countryside Link submitted a report to MPs which claimed that the British countryside was seen as a “racist colonial” white space.
However, Mr Syson has insisted the shake-up of the museum is not “woke” or “radical chic”, saying: “Being inclusive and representative shouldn’t be controversial; it should be enriching.”
A sign for the new Identity gallery informs visitors that portraits of uniformed and wealthy sitters “became vital tools in reinforcing the social order of a white ruling class, leaving very little room for representations of people of colour, the working classes or other marginalised people”.
‘Portraits entangled with imperialism’
It adds that “portraits were often entangled, in complex ways, with British imperialism and the institution of transatlantic slavery”.
Paintings in this space include Joseph Wright’s (1734-97) portrait of Richard FitzWilliam, who bequeathed £100,000 to fund what is now the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Labelling for the portrait points out that FitzWilliam’s wealth “came from his grandfather, Sir Matthew Decker, who had amassed it in part through the transatlantic trade of enslaved African people”.
The gallery also displays paintings intended to broaden representation with works by John Singer Sargent, the subject of “speculation he led a secret, queer life”, and works by artists in the Jewish diaspora, and a modern work by Joy Labinjo, the British-Nigerian artist.
The Migration and Movement gallery display notes that “while some people chose to leave their homes, global conflict, discrimination and European colonialism meant others fled or were exiled by force”.
Here visitors can see works by Jewish artists who fled the Nazis, such as Motesiczky, along with works specifically focused on the Roma gypsies and travellers, including Turner’s A Beech Wood with Gypsies Around a Fire.
In the Men Looking at Women gallery the different ways in which male artists have portrayed female subjects is explored, until women’s more equal status in society altered how they were depicted.
Specific themes from the “mythologising” of violence in paintings, to “women reading”, to the emergence of outdoor painting, are now covered following the rehang.
Wildlife and Countryside Link, an umbrella group for nature charities, drew up a report on perceived barriers to ethnic minorities enjoying the countryside.
The report, submitted to MPs in an all-party parliamentary group for Race and Community, claimed that the British countryside has been influenced by “racist colonial legacies” which have created an environment some fear is “dominated by white people”.
The report added that Britain’s green spaces were seen to be influenced by “white British cultural values”, and that the idea of such a “white space” prevents people from other ethnic backgrounds from enjoying the outdoors.
The claims, disclosed by The Telegraph, prompted Suella Braverman, the former home secretary to say that “no, the countryside is not racist”.
John Constable painted Stonehenge. His depiction in quite different from the state the monument is in today on account of university archeological vandals “restoring” the megalith.
They first vandalised Stonehenge in the early 1900s then the greatest vandalism occured in the 1950s.
Maybe it was this fear the university nuts have of white people having any sense of belonging or rootedness to the soil won by their ancestors which prompted the above vandalism of stonehenge along with their fear of the art legacy left by their ancestors mentioned in this article.
Now that they’ve firmly established the public’s belief in one-way racism, white against black but not vice-versa, and scared the establishment Christians away from their religion, anti-nationalism is next on the woke agenda. Anti-nationalism’s opposite and intended replacement is globalism, of course.
So let’s get rid of all those bucolic paintings of farmers in their fields back in the days when England was a sovereign nation! Attacking the Mona Lisa and tearing down statues of American heroes is just the beginning! Soon you won’t have a country; to use the word will be hate speech against the globalist regime. Soon there will be no pictures or statues or books or anything to show you what life used to be like where you live, or used to live.
Madame Mao’s destruction of all Chinese cultural artifacts didn’t work, but a lot of history and beauty and thought were lost in the attempt. We in the West today have already lost too much and can clearly see the destruction spreading. All the modern -isms that are used to justify this replacement of our entire culture in all its national versions are leading to one goal: total suppression and control of the many by the very few.
Madame Mao and her Gang of Four were defeated by people at the top of her own govt. Do the British or the Americans have anyone, let alone a group, at the top who want to defeat globalism? If not, we ordinary folk are going to have to do it ourselves.
Oops — I meant, “Nationalism’s opposite is globalism”. The “Anti-” doesn’t belong there.
Facebook is deleting accounts of folk who condemn pedophiles as ” antisemitic ”
how he hell does that work?
Constable moved to HH to escape the hot summers in London, and who can blame him. London was not a nice place than, and it isn’t today.
My own take on Constable, is that life in Britain was bad in the countryside, and bad in thr cities. We forget that rams crafted nearly all the countryside we see today, and they built the cities, but I’ll give the Waterloo Bridge to the ewes.
The reality is that most sheeple were slaves, that’s white sheeple.
Given that our Nazi one party state wants to limit our access to the countryside, and exist in poky cities and town in dwellings that are beyond tiny. There’s very little to take national pride in. You look at Hampstead Heath which was pretty rural back then, and one might contemplate fighting on the Russian front, given the renewed calls for conscription, not that Britain could afford to conscript a force of any military worth.
And this brings me to my next point. I’m not that big on art. Some is rather pleasing, but some works were commissioned by the same filth who ran the country. One thing is true, art is a historical record, even if its one sheeple’s take. Many art works have previous works below what we see. Sometimes it is a very different picture, but more often than not, its a moderficaton on the older picture.
We all know that most of what we see has no baring on actual realities, be that movies, BBC wildlife fakery, glossy magazines, adverts, and news media, where even the BBC attributes images taken in one location and then attributes them to another location.
The princess of Wales calls herself an amateur photographer, and she likes to mess with realities. In simple terms, she’s engaged in defrauding her sheeple followers. Now, don’t get me wrong, the sheeple do this as well, posting extremely doctored images on their social media. They are lying to their families, friends and followers.
In Kate’s case, it’s much more sinister, when you take a fraction of a second in time, or several fractions of time, and then go into an editing suite or app, and you literally obliterate what you started out with, it is very wrong. She went to uni, and she’s only in her 40s, but all the same, this attempt at faking a family portrait, was child level editing.
The image of Kate sitting in the car with her mother. It doesn’t
This chap says thlook like Kate, and the image of Kate in the rear seat with Lazy Boy Wills, also looks faked. The brickwork through the glass, looks nothing like the brickwork above the car, & I’ve considered two inch think armoured glass.
Now, there’s been some very out there conspiracy theories. I am not saying they are true, but there’s smoke to be seen.
One chap who I can’t remember his name, but sounds UK, says that Kate was having an affair with her sisters ex partner, and that Kate was pregnant, and refused to have an abortion. This chap says the relationship was ongoing, due to WhatsApp messages, but here’s the rub, this guy was found dead in a family bedroom with the door locked, and that he died from a self inflicted head injury. Was he done in?
ere’s something big going on, and that Kate is probably dead (in the tower). lol
Now for some context. Lazy Boy Wills is on record as saying he found it difficult to love one woman. We know LBWs was humping one of Kate’s old friends, and Kate looked happy, and maybe they had an open marriage, it certainly appears that way to me, but I think LBWs was thinking he was the one to play about, while Kate did her duties with their lambs.
I said it a very long time ago, that once Kate had delivered heirs to the throne, she’d be gone.
I’ve also said from the start that her medical procedure, time in hospital, and recovery, and the fact that Kate has not been seen since Christmas, suggests as I’ve said, something is very wrong, but I’m not saying she’d dead, yet, but it’s a floater.
UK Anti-Traitor Party
time to clean out the Augean Stables…
I wish people would stop referring to liberals as “intellectuals. They are nothing more then pseudo-intellectual charlatans.
“Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!…” Walter Scott
While we are aware of current upheavals, the land enclosures of modern history have seen the removal of the commons with no compensation for ordinary folk together with the slavery of the sixty hour factory working week. This is seldom thought of by the descendants — ourselves — who have suffered alienation from the land, alienation from our work, and alienation lately born of immigration.
It is unfortunate that in the minds of many nationalists, idealism has been conflated with imperialism. The British Empire — the Kosher Empire — was an earlier form of globalism that invited with little cost, the ordinary British to bask in the reflected glory of “Empire”, even though like the conquered, we were wage slaves and cannon fodder. Yet the woke “hand wringing” of TPTB always seems to be forever directed at the working classes as “culprits” when they throw their guilt.
There is a curious thing about identity politics. The Labour Party and others, no longer make their mission the welfare of those defined by their income any longer. Karl Marx was wrong on economics – or so my own studies tell me – and also wrong when he observed class warfare was the engine of social change. There never has been real class warfare, just the rich taking more than they should and the poor trying to get a fairer share. Ordinary people could only be mobilised for genuine regime change when financed by others – for their own purposes e.g. Russia in 1917 or England in 1639. Here is where Orwell’s “Theory of Oligarchic Collectivism” is more apposite than Marx.
Many here will be aware of the continental bankers taking over Britain in 1694. Few will realise the struggle involving the aristocratic land holders, the Tories and the Whigs, champions of the bankers, would continue to play out even more beyond the time of the English Civil War. Ordinary people were caught in this struggle, with the Whigs taking a leaf out of Orwell and employing them as an engine of social change. A détente seems to have arisen when the daughters of the Whig (((bankers))) married into the landholding class.
Hillaire Belloc writes:
“Marriages began to take place, wholesale, between what had once been the aristocratic territorial families of this country and the Jewish commercial fortunes. After two generations of this, with the opening of the twentieth century those of the great territorial English families in which there was no Jewish blood were the exception. In nearly all of them was the strain more or less marked, in some of them so strong that though the name was still an English name and the traditions those of a purely English lineage of the long past, the physique and character had become wholly Jewish and the members of the family were taken for Jews whenever they traveled to countries where the gentry had not yet suffered or enjoyed this admixture.”
List of British Jewish nobility and gentry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Jewish_nobility_and_gentry
Part of the war of the rich against the poor is the bread and circuses of “Empire” or “Match of The Day”, but also the modern obsession with identity politics to the exclusion of the rich versus poor debate. It’s called divide and conquer. And like the “hero” of “1984”, there seems to be absolutely no point of leverage that can be employed for the best, because the victims usually provide the inertia the establishment welcomes.
If there was a platoon of Pakis from Punjab pulling a plough in that painting…
there’d be NO problem!! 🤣
Another academic beancounter appropriating and weaponising what he doesn’t understand…for his hunchbacked masters… who do…
these credentialed imbeciles should be in no way near art..the faddish pillocks… they should be pedaling modernist shit to rich vulgar ‘jewes’ and inbred trust funders without a chin.. better still, scribbling their musings for unread publications about the intersectional observations and inclusivity engendered by the spray can scrawl of ‘BaNkSY’.. on shit house walls… and how they’ve had their balls removed…
Cretins..
Pearls before swine….swine peals… they should give all of this great art to me… for the bar…
Privileged white people don’t lead horses in fields, they ride them. There are few minorities in paintings of Constable’s time because the elitists had no need to import cheap labour because poverty-pay labour was already here in abundance, a long day’s work paying pennies. Many elitists running Britain then and now despise their own poor people because of our dreadful class system which sometimes works more like a caste system, so hating foreigners while feigning respect for them comes as easy to them as idling.
The Left have always hated country people –
It is there in The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx wanted to abolish the countryside (I did bother reading the blummen thing)
Back in the 1980s, Peter Simple wrote in The Daily Telegraph that the Left despise Country people regarding them as suspiciously patriotic.
So this is not new, just that the Left have been given total power now.
It is undoubtedly true that the Countryside represents the soul of the nation.
So of course the Left wants to destroy it, and of course no one removes them whilst they are doing it, because this is Communist Britain not Christian Russia.
Last Saturday I browsed on Twitter and saw two items that, juxtaposed, sum up the New Britain unimprovably –
Keir Starmer, being ‘down with the kids’ and endorsing Stormzy –
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-the-music-that-made-me-from-beethoven-to-stormzy-7665s3362
And this pathetic yet frightening piece of ignorance from the Man himself -Ali G was never this funny or stupid :-
https://twitter.com/Nurseborisbash/status/1768089668204085563?t=AeArEpT6ChyMlynxpGaQSg&s=19
Takeaway quote: ‘Women were burned for saying things that men didn’t want to hear.
The church of England put heads on spikes.’
Stormzy is the ideal candidate for the next Ok about Education Secretary under Keir Starmer.
I try to be humorous about it, but these psychopaths ARE The Establishment.
Just paint some wogs into the picture…voila…inclusion!🎃
It sounds very much as if the elites of the New Normal World Order who run these museums have decreed that all paintings depicting idyllic pastoral country scenes showing the bond between man and nature must be destroyed, lest their visitors get restless from their smart-city cubicles and feel an urge to return to the land.
Luke Syson gave a ted talk in 2018 called, “how I learned to stop worrying and love ‘useless’ art.” He’s a former classicist, who was won over to kink by the superior salaries it offered.
The diversity lobby would have the term chiaroscuro relegated to an archaism and have it relpaced with the more inclusive neologism, oscuroscuro.
You wouldn’t be able to make much sense of Turner’s naval battles. They’d just look like uniformly black canvases.
What are they trying to achieve? Are they cranking up the guilt-shaming in rural Britain to ready our villages and hamlets for a saturation-level influx of immigrants into their communities, along with the uglifying urban-style housing development it would bring?
It is also an integral component of a longer term strategy to disposses farmers of their lands.
The ludicrousness of associating the countryside with a forbidding ethnic nationalism, tells of an idelogical fixation that’s unbounded by reason, logic or evidence. You can smell the chutzpah. Logical fallacies abound and not just the beauty of the countryside but reason itself is challenged.
Sing along, if you like,
“C’mon now, let’s get together in perfect harmony
‘Cause I got 20 acres and you got 43,
Now, I’ve got a brand new combine harvester and I’ll give you the key.”
Simon Smith: Marx was right about economics, in so far as how the field looked in his day, and modern academia and history has distorted what Marx said.
I would be absolutely fascinated on what Marx would say about today’s setup and mess. I think his blood would boil at just how utterly thicko the sheeple are.
It’s true–any reminder of British people working in the fields long ago gets me gassing Jews and hanging Blacks the next day; we just can’t help it
Constable give us the truth.
Stupid marxist Carl Jones!
Great…
We finally have Carl admitting he’s a trades union Marxist brought up on a diet of Red Ken in the smoke.. who knows nothing about cuntstubble.
…but who obviously knows quite a lot about mouton Rothschild wine because he helped RedKen count the bottles he billed the taxpayer for…(and once sniffed the cork as he sifted through redkens expenses which were actually krugerrands, used fifty pound notes in bundles of one thousand and bearer bonds for the locks at Camden…. in the office safe)…
He only needs to admit that he now lives on his GLC social workers ‘pension’…yes…. in Clapham.. and everything becomes clear…
@ Carl Smith
Too bad you can only see things from such a narrow point of view. There are other doctrines to the top-down orders of Marxism and Nazism, just as there other models of cooperation than just Masonic capitalism which appears to have no problem utilizing both failed creeds in running out their already-failed New World Order. To make sense of things in any vison of reality without God, the integrity of the individual person is always reduced to nothing, which is exactly what is going on with this New World Order marriage between your top-down, commie-promoting, oligarch-bankster dynasties and the top-down, Nazi monopolistic, multi-national corporations. That was the very false dichotomy presented to the European nations prior to WWII, both of which systems infected each other in the aftermath as a result, despite the weaker intervention of the Western more-diverse, democratic and Masonic-run nations intervening to turn the tide.
The present fight ought to be between governing models based on maximizing personal freedom, personal responsibility, self-determination, trust, the wide distribution of wealth in the form of assets and knowledge, together with the rule of law, and that the top-down, monster totalitarian, Marxist-Nazi, money-power monolith called ” the New World Order.
You will find communist paintings even in Moscow galleries of Kulak farmers ploughing the ground or harvesting the wheat. The Soviet Marxists simply got rid of them because whether or not their farming methods were more productive or not, private ownership was anathema against their collective farming modeling where farm workers would live in communes and the state would collect and dole out the food in long breadlines in the cities. Of course no real art came out of the scenes State-ordered starvation of Kulaks, but only fake propaganda films and posters of people pretending to be overjoyed with the tyranny.
“Dekulakization was a Soviet campaign of political repressions that aimed to liquidate the kulaks, a class of prosperous peasants, and their families.”
Then you had the top-down Nazi solution which were simply to eliminate those deemed subhuman and to give the farmland to those of either German stock or who helped in the Nazi cause.
With the Covid plandemic, every single major international institution, and every single one of our governments, as well as every single sitting elected representative and every single major political party, media network and professional institution in our nations, totally BETRAYED US – the people they were supposed to represent and protect. In the list of enemies of humanity I would have to include the King, all Royalty, the Pope, the Vatican, (most of the hierarchy of my own Church) and virtually every aristocrat and plutocrat alive today. They are all part of the top-down order which has betrayed us. IN THEIR OBESIANCE to the reigning international money-power order WHICH IS BOTH COMMUNIST AND FASCIST in all of its underpinnings THEY BETRAYED US AND THEY ARE CONTINUING TO DO SO. The few of us who are awake, wonder quite legitimately at what mass psyop, atrocity or war are they will inflict on us next. We even ask what kind of a virus next and will the next round of vaccines be even more toxic.
There is no argument to say that the people heading up these organizations were misled or mistaken. They knew damn well what was going on just as we did at the time. If I did not have the restraint of the real power which makes for redeemed souls, I would say that the only way to clean house is to kill every one of them.
Of course, my views provide no way to make friends or to build bridges from our lowly statures to those above, or even to convert anyone, but the problem now has more to do with the growing sense of hopelessness and surrender, within the common people who are repeatedly being deceived and duped into accepting lives not worth living, and in accepting the worst of the worst to head up all of our major institutions, and to reign over us.
Constable painted some marvellous art… And not a wog in sight 😂 how racist 😅
The Scum should like Constable, as he was part of the Movement to edge out religion in favour of Nature-worship, like Wordsworth, but, to the Scum, a work of art is a pic of cities being burned while the Black nude happily twerks at the flames, started because there were no White labourers, only Black ones, you see, and they now remember that working was a terrible idea
@Carl Jones
You can be forgiven for believing Karl Marx was right because he accepted similar fallacies regarding the factors of production as the neoclassic economists. Marx like the Austrians and others have conflated capital with land. The analysis of Henry George given by his 1879 treatise “Progress And Poverty” following Socratic style analysis was the best critique of economics in the 19th century. Unfortunately people do not read him. He has been airbrushed out of history. (George’s work does need updating to accommodate monetary matter, but that is something else.)
Among other things, Marx favoured income tax. He gets a tick for favouring a direct tax, but not the best form as George showed. I am not aware of this third cousin of the Rothschilds especially critiquing banks either.
Karl Marx like Keynes and like Led Zepplin’s vocalist Robert Plant, speak/sing gobbledegook most of the time. When they utter anything intelligible, people elect to also believe they can see the emperor’s new clothes as well. I confess to hearing and understanding profound passages, but will not extrapolate to the point where I can see anything but nakedness. I like certain ideas of Marx on religion and alienation, but he was more of a philosopher of sorts than a joined up thinker. His thinking lacked the clarity of real genius.
I assert anyone who cannot write clearly on a subject, like Marx or Keynes, does not understand that subject themselves. There are a whole body of academics who are useful idiots whose works are like the Bible — vast woolly and self-contradictory — because the power brokers can wring any nuance they wish to from their chosen gurus, and if you the common folks cannot see the “wisdom” of decisions being made in line with “scripture”, it is because you are too “stupid”. This, as I see it, is the condition of what I call Ptolemaic Economics.
I’ve read Keynes Mangum Opus twice. It’s fucking BS. Marx’s work is like swimming through treacle. It’s an impossible read. On the other hand, the overlooked American Henry George is pure gold. Sadly, people will not read him because their TV or university professor or the current zeitgeist prohibits it. I confess, the greatest intellectual loneliness I’ve experienced among TTS posters is realising no one here has ever heard of Henry George. He has been the most revelationary writer I have ever read on political economy; and I have read over 150 books on this subject and related matters over the last six years.
‘Homeland Security’ should be changed to ‘Nonwhites Only Land Management’.
Amazing, so many many damaged nerves on here.
Funny how everyone, even the anti establishment were rereading Marx and how his opinions were relevant after the 2008 financial collapse.
I mention Marx and that makes me a commie, or Red Ken lovie.
You can write a book and the layers of hate that build this so called green and pleasent land. The latest was the lockdown hate, towards all outsiders, that Wales, Scotland, and most of rural England was closed off through Nazi fear, and it persists even now, and you’re only tolerated if you’re in a hotel, or holiday park, because rented holiday homes are taking a beating. Take the NHS in Wales. They are terrified that a tourist will fall ill, and won’t receive satisfactory care. It’s that bad. Not just the payout, but the destruction of any Welsh international reputation. The nation is falling apart, and part of this is driven by immigrants.
Fake jews/EDOMITE blood suckers: omg, not a nigger or packie in sight, lets shit up and destroy this landscape immediately.
Definitely racist…. the people in the paintings are doing that thing called “work”
“Fitzwilliam Museum has suggested that paintings of the British countryside evoke dark ‘nationalist feelings'” …Tis true, just one brief look at the image of that painting above and I had a rather strong urge to run through a nigger Orc invade with a pitchfork and strangle Rishi Streetshitter Sunak with the Union Jack…and I’m not even British. Powerful stuff, those pastoral scenes.
How utterly absurd. One would almost have to believe things like this are tests to gauge how dangerously stupid and easily swayed the plebs and gentry ignorati are.
Luke Syson deserves to be chased through the streets by a mob of proud I’m-sick-of-this-shit Englishmen and have the ever living tar beaten out of him until he shits out his own teeth.
Anyone persuaded by Marxist economy isn’t very bright.
Define “Kapital” in the sense intended by Marx – go on: I bet you can’t. Karl Marx used at least three distinct definitions of “capital.”
In the classical sense, as defined by Adam Smith, “capital” referred to excess stock. That is, any product left over, after a profit was accounted.
Marx used the term “capital” in the traditional sense sometimes but also took it to mean excess profit, derived from the undervaluation of labour (extrapolating from Ricardo.)
Most problematic of all – (and this is where the entire Cultural Marxism milieu begins) – Marx defined “capital” as a social relationship, revealing a historical antagonism between workers and the owners of the means of production. The latter definition was a complete innovation, conjured to suit ulterior purpose – jewish supremacy.
You don’t have to think about it too long to realize that neither excess stock, nor excess profits, can be defined as a structurally integrated societal relationship. Marx invented “capital,” in the modern sense of the word and everybody else just went along with it, bamboozled by the bombast of an inferior intellect.
Marx represents the Jews who want the propertyless goyim to (violently) remove the rich goyim who are/were also our leaders, so that Jews can take the place of those leaders
Umbra Bellator: “Powerful stuff, those pastoral scenes” – Thanks for the laugh!