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Wednews Update!!
Here are the most important things going on in the world, in my humble opinion:
Thing #1: Goth kids, poets, and smartass intellectuals alike will be thrilled to know that the prototype for that poster in your dorm has been recovered. Take THAT, Guernica!! As a fellow bi-polar person, I enjoy Edvard's work very much. For your looking pleasure, here are some small versions of two of my favorites:
I always forget if Munch is considered expressionism or impressionism. I know that impressionist paintings are supposed to have been painted in under an hour, but I wasn't there when he painted most of them. ;-] His work incorporated lots of symbolism, and sometimes naturalism--although I like that a bit less. I mean, Picasso painted lifelike stuff but that was never as good as the cubist stuff IMHO. Murderer is an especially good painting because it's scary, sad, and disturbing all at once. You can see the horror, the remorse, and the road. Munch loves to paint people on roads.
The Scream is the piece that people love best, I think because it speaks to that part of us that we don't often articulate. It's supposedly a picture of his nervous breakdown, and I admit that if I look at this painting in just the right mood, it will move me to tears. There is such torment in it, and it's sad that it's been marketed to the point where it becomes the stuff of parody. Even though most people don't have nervous breakdowns, I think they are familiar with at least the fleeting feeling that they it's always possible.
Madonna was also recovered (did you even know it was gone?). I'm not posting a pic of it, because I don't care for it much. For one thing, I hate the color scheme. And for another, I have no idea what he's trying to convey with it--it's just a naked chick. I guess I do like some art even when I can't figure it out, but not this one. That's just how I roll.
Thing #2: FEEDBACK!!!!!!
Thing #3: This isn't new news or anything, but I think Tony's Law is funny every time I encounter it.
Thing #4: It has come to my attention that people in the UK do not watch SNL because they can't. So they are just now finding out about Colonel Angus and how one cures a fever with more cowbell. I only hope that they get Celebrity Jeopardy out thataway!
Thing #5: I'm supposed to be thinking of ways to have fun that do not include...you know, stuff I'm not supposed to do. So I ask you, what's something you do that's fun that doesn't cost anything, doesn't require transportation, and is actually fun and not lame? Let's hear it.
Thing #1: Goth kids, poets, and smartass intellectuals alike will be thrilled to know that the prototype for that poster in your dorm has been recovered. Take THAT, Guernica!! As a fellow bi-polar person, I enjoy Edvard's work very much. For your looking pleasure, here are some small versions of two of my favorites:
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The Kiss Oil paint. |
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Murderer This was my desktop wallpaper for a very long time. |
I always forget if Munch is considered expressionism or impressionism. I know that impressionist paintings are supposed to have been painted in under an hour, but I wasn't there when he painted most of them. ;-] His work incorporated lots of symbolism, and sometimes naturalism--although I like that a bit less. I mean, Picasso painted lifelike stuff but that was never as good as the cubist stuff IMHO. Murderer is an especially good painting because it's scary, sad, and disturbing all at once. You can see the horror, the remorse, and the road. Munch loves to paint people on roads.
The Scream is the piece that people love best, I think because it speaks to that part of us that we don't often articulate. It's supposedly a picture of his nervous breakdown, and I admit that if I look at this painting in just the right mood, it will move me to tears. There is such torment in it, and it's sad that it's been marketed to the point where it becomes the stuff of parody. Even though most people don't have nervous breakdowns, I think they are familiar with at least the fleeting feeling that they it's always possible.
Madonna was also recovered (did you even know it was gone?). I'm not posting a pic of it, because I don't care for it much. For one thing, I hate the color scheme. And for another, I have no idea what he's trying to convey with it--it's just a naked chick. I guess I do like some art even when I can't figure it out, but not this one. That's just how I roll.
Thing #2: FEEDBACK!!!!!!
Thing #3: This isn't new news or anything, but I think Tony's Law is funny every time I encounter it.
Thing #4: It has come to my attention that people in the UK do not watch SNL because they can't. So they are just now finding out about Colonel Angus and how one cures a fever with more cowbell. I only hope that they get Celebrity Jeopardy out thataway!
Thing #5: I'm supposed to be thinking of ways to have fun that do not include...you know, stuff I'm not supposed to do. So I ask you, what's something you do that's fun that doesn't cost anything, doesn't require transportation, and is actually fun and not lame? Let's hear it.
no subject
I didn't know that.
no subject
Van Gogh blew me away because his work (the portraiture, at any rate) has almost a three-dimensional quality to it; his knowledge of complement and contrast was so precise that he could make things /pop./ Fucking brilliant. But he's not so much about The Mailman at 10:01 AM on Tuesday Smarch 33rd as he is about Van Gogh's Mailman sitting for Van Gogh. Expressionism, whose ultimate conclusion is 'this painting tells you about the painter /and/ the subject, because how the painter feels about the subject affects how the painter renders the subject, and the subject's mood and attitude toward the painter affect how the subject sits, blah-blah-bling-bling-blah.'
Then you have a guy like Seurat, whose painting (the one Cameron loses himself inside in 'Ferris Beuller,') is kind of the Monet-was-a-pussy school of drawing -- pointilism, which takes the 'patches of light' philosophy and says: "I can do better than that! How about /atoms,/ bitches?!" Particles, at any rate. It's Van Gogh's supreme knowledge of contrast and complement combined with the kind of anal retentiveness that makes Monet look half-assed in the extreme. But because it's more "light and shadow" than "this reveals how I feel about these people in the park, and how they keep staring at me!" ... it's Impressionism, not Expressionism. Light is ephemeral, but has no emotion associated with it.
Vowels and Continents
I probably should have consulted you before even attempting to post about art. ;-]
Re: Vowels and Continents
Re: Vowels and Continents
I guess they just aren't MAAAAAAD enough!