Favorite painting? [Archive]

Herr Lipp

03-14-2006, 05:27 AM

Did you know Da Vinci could paint with one hand and write with the other simultaneously? That's a party trick.

(I always read "The People"'s factoid section on a Sunday. )

Fab

03-14-2006, 08:24 AM

Herr Lipp

03-14-2006, 08:35 AM

See the Orientals can do all this, yet they still haven't sorted out their squinting problems! Has no one from the West passed on the cures to astigmatisms!!!

Nah I love Orientals. There is an Oriental midget who works in my building, no joke.

Osceana

03-14-2006, 10:51 PM

Arg, on This Morning they were talking about a school in Oriental Asia where they've taught the kids to write simultaneously with both hands in different subjects! They can even write in different languages at the same time!

That's pretty cool, however i have to weigh it against the fact that most of those kids suffer intense depression and there's a high suicide rate (especially in Japan). I remember watching a video about it in my French class. The kids come straight home from school and do homework until it's time to go to sleep, and if i remember correctly, they even have school on Saturday.

03-14-2006, 11:42 PM

Yeah I have the impression that quite a few of my cousins who grew up in that sort of system are depressed and unhappy with their lives.
I have spent a little time there, it seems like they get up at the crack of dawn to get to school and then when they get home it's private tutoring before and after dinner.
That and then there's Christianity. D: I would kill myself.

kendra

03-15-2006, 12:13 AM

You just wouldn't be you, that'd be the worst of all.

Herr Lipp

03-15-2006, 04:56 AM

ugh, get a room you two.

Ireland has the highest suicide rate of young males in Europe! Not because they work hard, it's just most of rural Ireland is miserable, cold and dark.

TheImplodingVoice

03-15-2006, 11:18 AM

and drunk

Herr Lipp

03-15-2006, 11:29 AM

true. my cousin who lives there says it is just that some boys get stuck on their families farms and don't see anything else in life. Could be depressing! Plus rural Ireland, like rural England, isn't going to be teeming with psycholgists and shrinks offering you cut-price antidepressants to anyone that will pay them (a la america)

Osceana

03-15-2006, 06:04 PM

and drunk

Yeah. It's odd because i feel like alcoholism is a stereotype of Irish people that's actually not that exaggerated. This girl i used to work with at Starbucks was spending the summer in Chicago and every morning when we would open together i'd ask her how her night was. She would always give me the same reply: "Oh, last night we stayed up drinking until 5 a.m., then i came into work." This girl would be sweating at 8 a.m. in the morning! It was pretty insane.

I just saw "Angela's Ashes" (i haven't read the book). I never really realized how bleak Ireland was then, and even now.

Nak Nak

03-15-2006, 07:21 PM

I wish irish people were quiet drunks, i fuckin hate the irish accent.

Herr Lipp

03-16-2006, 05:12 AM

It's quite rowdy. And yes, Irish people deserve the stereotype! My cousin often goes to work to find EVERYONE in her office hungover, no exaggeration. She's a big drinker too, so fits in well there (she's English).

Jackal

03-16-2006, 10:40 AM

Hey! Leave the Irish alone you fuckers! I have a lot of Irish policemen in my family and they never drink.....Oh wait, that's wrong...nevermind.

Herr Lipp

03-16-2006, 10:50 AM

:O I'm a whole quarter Irish!

Plus the Irish Irish are very different to the American Irish.

Jackal

03-16-2006, 11:28 AM

I'm not sure about my %'s. I guess my family came here during the potato famine. I thought I've read where Irish people are more prone to drinking because of a gene or something that makes alcohol effect them differently somehow.

Herr Lipp

03-16-2006, 11:34 AM

Heh. Dunno about that. Probably just historical drinkers, hard workers, hard partyers.

England were really harsh to Ireland during the Famine! Didn't help them out much. One of the many not-so-great thing's England has done in teh past!

aria

03-16-2006, 01:18 PM

kate bush - an architect's dream

Watching the painter painting
And all the time, the light is changing
And he keeps painting
That bit there, it was an accident
But he’s so pleased
It’s the best mistake, he could make
And it’s my favourite piece
It’s just great

Intern Kate

03-16-2006, 06:25 PM

Yeah. It's odd because i feel like alcoholism is a stereotype of Irish people that's actually not that exaggerated. This girl i used to work with at Starbucks was spending the summer in Chicago and every morning when we would open together i'd ask her how her night was. She would always give me the same reply: "Oh, last night we stayed up drinking until 5 a.m., then i came into work." This girl would be sweating at 8 a.m. in the morning! It was pretty insane.

I just saw "Angela's Ashes" (i haven't read the book). I never really realized how bleak Ireland was then, and even now.

i like the book because you get McCourt's humor which kind of softens the blow; you forget to be so depressed about it all.

kendra

03-16-2006, 09:37 PM

I liked the book and the movie but it still depressed the hell out of me. It's amazing he came out the other side of that.

aria

03-16-2006, 10:12 PM

i haven't seen the film but ive read the book and the follow-up to it.

i was amazed he lived through so many hardships, seemed enough for 3 lifetimes by the end of the book(s)

i think when a chronic eye-problem he had was exacerbated because doctors in the army put the worst thing they could in them, well,

i just had to put the book down for 2 days or something

it was like priests, the army, doctors etc thought up the cruelest things they could inflict on him and then 4 pages later there he was, getting fucked over once again

Jackal

03-17-2006, 07:53 PM

God, I wish it was 20 years ago when art was my life. I breathed it. I came home drunk from bars, and painted furiously!!! I splatted oil paint on the walls and carpet. I let it all out and was ravenous. Beer, painting, smoking, people having sex in my hallway. Awesome.

Kinbote

03-18-2006, 01:58 AM

I don't know. Most of the self-styled "artists" I've ever met have been real assholes.

Gullible

03-23-2006, 05:41 PM

http://docentes.uacj.mx/fgomez/museoglobal/images_2004/D_1/Dalí/Salvador%20Dali%20Swans%20Reflecting%20Elephants.jpg

ems

03-25-2006, 05:34 PM

Galatea of the Spheres by Salvador Dali

http://www.andriaroberto.com/Salvador%20Dali%20-%20Galatea%20Of%20The%20Spheres.jpg

ems

03-25-2006, 05:37 PM

Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/artists/vincent_van_gogh/van_gogh_starry_night.jpg

ems

03-25-2006, 05:43 PM

The Scream by Edvard Munch

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/munch/munch.scream.jpg

Intern Kate

03-26-2006, 05:47 PM

oh i don't know about favorite but i really enjoyed the Hockney exhibit this weekend. this one's lovely, though i couldn't find the one i really wanted to show.

Intern Kate

03-26-2006, 05:58 PM

sorry about the yucky white border there. here is one i've always liked. *please work this time*

Osceana

03-26-2006, 07:55 PM

This is a shot in the dark, i know, but i saw this piece at the MCA here about two or three years ago and all it was was this large sepia photograph printed onto a canvas of a clocktower. Right next to the print was a piece of writing that went along with it. It was a dialogue between two people, a man and a woman. It was something like:

"When can i see you again?"
"I don't know, i'm still at work. I don't know if i can get away...."
"Where are you? I'm on six."
"I'm down on three."
"What time do you get off?"
"[some time] I can meet you then."
"Alright, i'll see you then."
"See you...."

It was something like that. No details were given to the characters at all and it was vague about whether these people were secret lovers or if they had just started dating. I loved it. I haven't enjoyed a piece that much in a while. Has anyone else seen this? I don't know who the artist is.

Kinbote

03-27-2006, 12:55 AM

Kate, is there a special charge for the Hockney show, and does it spend much time on those awful collages of his?

Intern Kate

03-27-2006, 01:34 AM

i think there was an additional charge that even my trusty student id, which i've lost somewhere in my derelict traipsing, wouldn't've covered. a nice man in a hotel lobby gave two tickets away to my aunt. those photo thingums? there were only a few i think, one a cutesy game of Scrabble, but it certainly wasn't a focus. mostly paintings, lots of sketches. i liked the Celia portraits. i liked it.

Ted i have awful homework tonight, fetishizing objects drawn from the intertextuality of Possession. :(