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Post by Marshall on Mar 8, 2024 11:43:54 GMT -5
One of these electronic art pieces is hanging on the wall of a bar I go to.
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Post by Dub on Mar 8, 2024 12:01:22 GMT -5
Mona Lisa, Mona !isa men have maimed you.
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Post by dradtke on Mar 8, 2024 17:29:53 GMT -5
I've always loved this. I tried working it up but I can't quite do it justice.
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Post by Marshall on Mar 9, 2024 15:00:15 GMT -5
The electric sign in the bar doesn't have any music playing. At first it looks like a still copy of the Mona Lisa painting. Then she moves and picks up a Red Bull Vodka.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Mar 9, 2024 15:24:06 GMT -5
The electric sign in the bar doesn't have any music playing. At first it looks like a still copy of the Mona Lisa painting. Then she moves ad picks up a Red Bull Vodka. Well that sounds lame. Mike
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Post by Marshall on Mar 9, 2024 15:40:11 GMT -5
As does much in the world of advertising hucksterism. It caught my attention when she moves. (And she’s not even in a bikini)
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Post by millring on Mar 9, 2024 17:23:33 GMT -5
I mentioned not long ago that I seem to lack the gene that responds to abstract expressionism. Maybe it's that I'm expecting too much. I remember when I got my first computer and had my first logging-onto-the-internet experience. My computer couldn't really log on until a tech guy turned DOWN my speed. He explained the speed isn't the thing if it can't sync with the connection. As a metaphor it really struck home. Sometimes we don't get things because of our expectations. Anyway, though I don't really get abstract expressionism beyond an intellectual level, I can also say that I will probably never understand why the Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world.
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Post by John B on Mar 9, 2024 18:25:43 GMT -5
I mentioned not long ago that I seem to lack the gene that responds to abstract expressionism. Maybe it's that I'm expecting too much. I remember when I got my first computer and had my first logging-onto-the-internet experience. My computer couldn't really log on until a tech guy turned DOWN my speed. He explained the speed isn't the thing if it can't sync with the connection. As a metaphor it really struck home. Sometimes we don't get things because of our expectations. Anyway, though I don't really get abstract expressionism beyond an intellectual level, I can also say that I will probably never understand why the Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the world. According to a few heist movies I've seen, it was just another painting until it was stolen and then recovered. It needed a story.
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Post by david on Mar 9, 2024 18:33:48 GMT -5
I saw the Mona Lisa at the Louvre and had the same reaction. Subsequently, I learned that part of its importance is in having a portrait front and center with a landscape in the background, apparently a new technique at the time, and another reason is the mysterious expression. That helps me understand it, but not like it.
As to abstract expressionism, I am similarly unmoved.
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Post by james on Mar 9, 2024 19:03:46 GMT -5
Although it's sometimes interesting to speculate, I mostly don’t understand or know how to put into words why all kinds of vastly different forms of visual artistic expression move or fascinate me. I have been taken by surprise by abstract expressionist stuff a few times. Bewildering but pleasing.
FWIW, I notice I'm not presently feeling especially inclined to chug Red Bull. Perhaps the manipulation of my desire to rot my teeth and accelerate my heart rate is subtle and cunning.
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Post by Dub on Mar 9, 2024 19:36:38 GMT -5
I've never seen the Mona Lisa in person but Fiddlerina has. I've always loved everything about it. It seems a magnificent work of art to me. I also love art that contains no recognizable components. If it has form and movement and is artfully done, I will probably like it. As a boy, I used to ride my bicycle to Des Moines' Art Center just to sit and watch an original Calder mobile. I'm also very fond of Sumi-e art. Again, it's the lines and the movement.
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Mar 9, 2024 21:10:28 GMT -5
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Post by theevan on Mar 9, 2024 21:10:28 GMT -5
Visited the Nelson in KCMO a number of years ago. Walked into the next room and was confronted with a repentant Mary Magdalene by El Greco. Large scale. I burst into tears. I had no idea such a thing was possible.
Just watched a program on Walter Anderson. Wow, art I love.
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Post by Marty on Mar 9, 2024 21:53:16 GMT -5
In the mid 80s the only place you could find Red Bull was in an Asian grocery store. The can was gold with a red logo of the two bulls and it was made in Thailand by a pharmaceutical company. It was the diameter of any standard drink can but only half as high. I went to the Asian grocery across the street from General music just before we opened every morning and got a can. Then Red Bull disappeared for a short while and reappeared with the can size we know now and made in Austria. I still drink a can of sugar free Red Bull every morning. Starting fluid. The Asian stuff didn't give you wiings, it's more like you think your ass was shot out of a cannon.
Our UPS guy was Jim and one morning he asked about my odd can of Red Bull. I told him about it and also that they sold glass vials of Red Bull concentrate meant to be added to other drinks. He showed up the next morning with a pocket full of the glass vials talking a mile a minute. Seems he consumed 3 vials without putting it in another drink to water it down a bit. I presume he got his work done that day in record time but the crash later in the day must have been monumental.
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Post by epaul on Mar 9, 2024 21:54:11 GMT -5
When I saw the Mona Lisa I was flabbergasted. It was a tiny little thing in the center of a big room, a postage stamp of a painting. Not worth the line... and the line was short. But, I did see it.
Not surprisingly, I liked best the large paintings with scope, detail, and naked river nymphs a frolicking. I have simple tastes.
But, the ones that amazed were the impressionists and post-impressionists. I was familiar with them from my art classes, so I knew them all. But I didn't know them at all. It's one thing to see a nice pretty print in nice pretty book, but to see these paintings live...
up close they are just a mess of paint globs, a smear of colors and blobs, but as you back away, they gradually become to be. How those artists could smear those thick globs of paint on a canvas knowing they would come together to create the step-away vision they did was a wonderment to me.
Art is a mystery to me. Drawing a simple duck that looks like a duck is a mystery to me. Anything beyond stick figures is a mystery to me. There are a lot of things that are a mystery to me.
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Post by epaul on Mar 9, 2024 22:10:53 GMT -5
Sister Wendy.
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