name	Greco Ghosts
subject	The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of the Lone Green Valley
message	Who says you have to be a Parisian or a New Yorker to get respect in the art world? Thomas Hart Benton, along with his friends Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, formed a group known as the Regionalists, representing the Midwest and (often, but not always) ordinary life in their art. I appreciate Benton’s art because it brings to mind the vibrant colors and exaggerated Mannerist figures of El Greco, whom I adore. In addition to Midwestern realism in subject matter, Benton liked to juxtapose familiar Midwestern landscape with scenes of allegory, mythology, or folklore. His lengthy titled painting, The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of the Lone Green Valley, from 1934, is based on the Ozark, Missouri legend of a man who murdered his fiancé after unfounded suspicions of infidelity https://grecosghosts.com/2013/06/28/the-ballad-of-the-jealous-lover-of -the-lone-green-valley/
date	Saturday July 18, 2020

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