Talk:The Singing Butler

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With such a shortage of referenced interpretations, perhaps I can make a few comments. The large Vettriano exhibition at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow was the first large exhibition of his work in Scotland, which itself says something interesting. Art curators in Scotland have indeed been quite hostile to his work. Their idea of proper Scottish painting is perhaps the Scottish colourist movement, one of the hight-points of British art.

Our interpretation of The Singing Butler is not helpful to the reader who might wonder about what he or she is looking at. Everything in the painting is deliberate, and really asks the viewer to explain why, while looking superficially so realistic, it is actually a fantasy. A fantasy with touches of the surreal. The dreamlike landscape, the way the wind and rain don't touch the principal figures, the reversed dance hold, the very idea that a butler and maid are present, the very idea of dancing on a beach... It reminds one of the way surrealists used dreams and the unconscious mind as touchstones. And, of course, it's got the man/woman tension and the 1950s references which are quite typical of Vettriano. Macdonald-ross (talk) 11:23, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Not only is the dance hold reversed; are they not hopelessly out of step? There is nowhere for them to go in that position. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alberich4 (talk • contribs) 21:22, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

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