Scott Bloch (prosecutor investigating Rove) is grandson of famous painter, Albert Bloch

[npincus]

An interesting bit of trivia found in this article: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-bloch1may01,1,1002680.story?page=1&coll=la-headlines-politics&ctrack=2&cset=true

About Scott Bloch:


He was born in New York City, the son of a television scriptwriter. The family moved west from Brooklyn when Bloch was 3, and he grew up in Los Angeles while his father penned scripts for hit shows including "The Flintstones," "The Jetsons," "Gilligan's Island," "Gunsmoke" and the "The Mod Squad."

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Bloch surprised his family after graduating from William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills by opting for the University of Kansas instead of UCLA or UC Berkeley.

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He chose Kansas, he said, because his deceased grandfather, an acclaimed artist who the young Bloch barely knew, had taught and lived there.

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What he discovered was the rich legacy of a pioneering German expressionist painter, a man who would become intensely interested in spiritual and religious themes. Although the paintings of Albert Bloch are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, the painter eschewed commercialism during his lifetime, telling his students that art "was a search for the truth."

About Albert Bloch: http://www2.ku.edu/~maxkade/selections_from_absc.htm


Born in 1882 in St. Louis, Albert Bloch was trained in a local art school. In 1908, Bloch went to Europe to continue his artistic training. In 1911, Kandinsky, along with his friend Franz Marc, visited Bloch’s studio and soon invited Bloch to join them in their new venture, the first exhibition of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), which opened in Munich in December 1911. Bloch showed six canvases in the first Blue Rider exhibition. Thereafter Bloch participated in other major avant-garde shows in Europe. Following his return to the United States, Bloch taught for a year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago (1922-23) before accepting the position of head of the department of painting and drawing at the University of Kansas in the fall of 1923. For the next twenty-four years, Bloch taught art and art history at the University. He died in 1961, survived by his second wife, Anna Francis Bloch, whose dedication, knowledge, and accessibility have made the rediscovery of Bloch possible.

[pocoloco]

1. So, is this good or bad?

[npincus]

2. simply trivia, no judgement.

Bloch the Younger's dad wrote episodes of :"The Flintstones" and "The Jetsons", etc. and his grand-dad is an acclaimed painter.

I am an Art-Luvuh, myself.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. He's a loyal Bushie (Bloch). Not sure how the artist grandfather is relevant. The

"investigation" will be a pure whitewash, designed to:

-come to a predetermined conclusion that "no crimes were committed" and protect Rove and company

-shield others like Lurita Doan during the investigation, who will now no longer cooperate further or testify in Congress due to "cooperating with an ongoing investigation" (the Bloch whitewash)

-if it is successful, deter Congress from continuing or initiating its own VALID, non-whitewash, investigations.

[npincus]

5. not particularly relevant, but

interesting-- to me, at least.

The grandad taught that "art is the search for truth", the grandson empowered by the government to search for the truth, deliver justice...

I am as skeptical as you on the outcome.

[KharmaTrain]

4. I Hear The Grandson Paints In Only White

Watching Bloch on Washington Journal last week, I think he'd be a perfect script writer for "Twilight Zone"

[annabanana]

6. I wonder what his grandfather would have thought of B*SH

[mitchleary]

7. Any relation

to celeb stylist Phillip Bloch?