#secessio

Aw man. I'm really sad to hear that Secessio got a ton of shit in the comments for his video on Bouguereau's "La Vierge Consolatrice". I love Bouguereau and I really enjoyed Secessio's analysis of this striking piece since I wasn't aware of what was going on in Bouguereau's personal life at the time he painted it:

“The spirit of the times is secession. This is the symbol that we need to understand. Whether it pleases us or not, whether it suits our values or not, it is a symbol of the end of illusions concerning the theories of emancipation elaborated in the XIXth century and which, more or less consciously, continue to torment Official Thought. The end, equally, of the myth of continuous Progress and triumphant Reason. The age of quantitative values gives way to a diffuse desire for the qualitative.”