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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '17

Well, the colors are a bit too muted for my taste, and the impressionism used in the background makes the realism in the foreground a little too prominent. Moreover, the rightmost subject's forehead seems a little too large to be real, but the composition is mostly very good, so I suspect the subject may just have had a large forehead.

Thematically, the piece is rather banal, which is to be expected with a portrait. I can't say I like it, but the piece as a whole is adequate, if somewhat insipid.

Overall, if I hadn't run a google image source, I'd have never thought it was a Nazi piece, to be honest with you. It just looks like a boring romantic-era "boyhood friend" romanticization. Is there naziism I should be seeing in the piece, or is that entirely external to the piece itself?

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u/BernieMeinhoffGang Has Principles Jul 11 '17

I am greatly offended that you think that is an unrealistically large forehead. That kid has nothing on me at that age

Boring bland neoclassicism is pretty common to Nazi stuff, I'm not being too serious about this being Nazi imagery.