The Louvre

[Ixtab]

Why was the Mongol architect Ieoh Ming Pei allowed to ruin the Louvre with modernist architecture? I am referring to the repulsive Louvre pyramid ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HPIM1258.JPG) that was constructed in 1985.

For more examples of art degeneracy, see the Wikipedia entry on I. M. Pei (images at bottom of page):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei

[Ixtab]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/National_gallery_of_art_usa2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/THU_Luce_Memorial_Chapel.jpg

[Warka]

It is terribly out of place. It ruins this picture:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Louvre_at_night_centered.jpg

[Niko Bellic]

Why was the Mongol architect Ieoh Ming Pei allowed to ruin the Louvre with modernist architecture? I am referring to the repulsive Louvre pyramid ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HPIM1258.JPG) that was constructed in 1985.

For more examples of art degeneracy, see the Wikipedia entry on I. M. Pei (images at bottom of page):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei

Probably a Masonic thing.

[Crowley]

Why do French allow niggers to colonize them? The pyramid is just another sad example of white ethno-masochism. It all boils down the the unfortunate fact that the wrong people won WW2.

[Ixtab]

It all boils down to the fact that Germany started WWII and racialism has become indelibly associated with the insanities of Nazi Germany. The remedy is not to reinforce this unjust association by apologing for Nazism or denying the atrocities committed in its name but by repudiating Nazism compoletly.

[Crowley]

A good response that may even be true to a certain extent. If it werent for the Red menace I would agree.

[Ixtab]

A good response that may even be true to a certain extent. If it werent for the Red menace I would agree.Whilst the public mind associates racism with Nazism, it does not link egalitarianism to communism even though the atrocities of communism were often committed in the name of Equality. This is because the United States is at least theoretically founded on egalitarian principles. Racialists in America can point to the atrocities committed in the name of equality by communists, in answer to the anti-racist who points to the racially motivated atrocities committed by Nazis, but this argument loses much of its force because America itself is founded on egalitarian principles.

[Niko Bellic]

Whilst the public mind associates racism with Nazism, it does not link egalitarianism to communism even though the atrocities of communism were often committed in the name of Equality. This is because the United States is at least theoretically founded on egalitarian principles. Racialists in America can point to the atrocities committed in the name of equality by communists, in answer to the anti-racist who points to the racially motivated atrocities committed by Nazis, but this argument loses much of its force because America itself is founded on egalitarian principles.

People on the right, from neocons to libertarians absolutely associate egalitarianism with communism.

When you go back to the source, America's brand of egalitarianism is entirely based on economic class, not race. It's a difference that's been glossed over in the last century. When the founders said "all men", they meant all white men, because they didn't think the other races were fully human.

[Ahknaton]

In The Da Vinci Code (the book, I haven't seen the movie) it is claimed that the Louvre pyramid has 666 panes of glass. Is this true?

[Atlas]

In The Da Vinci Code (the book, I haven't seen the movie) it is claimed that the Louvre pyramid has 666 panes of glass. Is this true?

673 precisely.

http://www.lisashea.com/hobbies/art/louvre.html

Don't bother watching the movie btw.

[Ixtab]

People on the right, from neocons to libertarians absolutely associate egalitarianism with communism.It is not associated as strongly in the public mind as racism is with Nazism.

When you go back to the source, America's brand of egalitarianism is entirely based on economic class, not race. It's a difference that's been glossed over in the last century. When the founders said "all men", they meant all white men, because they didn't think the other races were fully human.Yes, this is true. The communistic brand of equalitarianism was itself also originally based entirely on economic class, though. The original communists, whilst preaching economic equality, often exhibited racial animus towards Slavs, Jews, and Mediterraneans; and probably only a small minority of them entertained the preposterous idea of global racial equality. Racist statements by Marx and Engels have been well documented in the book Karl Marx: Racist.

[Hartmann von Aue]

The illuminated pyramid in the Louvre is a masonic symbol of domination.

The Louvre used to be the Royal Palace.

[Jake Featherston]

I don't have a problem with the pryamidal structure outside the Louvre.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/THU_Luce_Memorial_Chapel.jpg

This thing, however, looks like a 1970s-era Der Wienerschnitzel.

http://www.99w.com/evilsam/ff/wienerschnitzel.jpg

http://greensboring.com/upimages/reg/images/154wiener.jpg

[Felix the Cat]

Am I the only one here who hasn't read that daft Da Vinci book?

[Warka]

Am I the only one here who hasn't read that daft Da Vinci book?

No, I also haven't read it and it's nowhere near the top of my reading list.

[Jake Featherston]

No, I also haven't read it and it's nowhere near the top of my reading list.

I won't even let my wife rent the movie.

[Jimbo Gomez]

Am I the only one here who hasn't read that daft Da Vinci book?


I haven't read a work of fiction since I read the Turner Diarries a few years ago.

[Count Eustace II]

The Da Vinci Code is one of the worst movies ever made. Not worth the material it's printed on.

Pei's pyramid at the Louvre is best viewed in person. It is an odd sculpture no doubt, but the times that I visited the Louvre,
I always found that pyramid more and more appealing.

Functionally, it definitely brings a lot of light down into the atrium of the Louvre, that's for sure.

[La Cosa Blanca]

Pei's pyramid at the Louvre is best viewed in person. It is an odd sculpture no doubt, but the times that I visited the Louvre,
I always found that pyramid more and more appealing.

Functionally, it definitely brings a lot of light down into the atrium of the Louvre, that's for sure.

I agree, the pyramid is much nicer in person (minus the never ending line to enter it), and also seems larger than it is in pictures. If anything it is the surrounding structure that looks worse and makes the pyramid look worse.

[Ixtab]

Everyone I know who has seen the Louvre in person, except for a couple of degenerates posting on the Phora, has said that the Pyramid is an eye-sore.

[La Cosa Blanca]

Everyone I know who has seen the Louvre in person, except for a couple of degenerates posting on the Phora, has said that the Pyramid is an eye-sore.

Do you find the pyramids of Giza an eye sore as well, Jew?

[Ixtab]

Do you find the pyramids of Giza an eye sore as well, Jew?It is an eyesore because it is so utterly out of place, not because it is a pyramid.