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8354. prolph - 2/16/2007 12:11:09 PM arky et.al. more on the goya, I really liked your asking the studemts what
atracted them. i have had the good fortune to see it in madrid. several
times in fact. it is a huge picture and stunning to see for the first time
well and more times, the most atractive in real life is the fire which
acrually lights up the room. the light is so brilliant that a young man next to me were both looking at the ceiling to see if there was a light aimed at the picture. manet also did a similar picture and while i like manet he didn't come close. it is always for me to see a real life picture that i have
loved for years in books and then have the paint leap off the canvas in a museum,
patsy
8355. Magoseph - 2/16/2007 12:19:56 PM 
8356. arkymalarky - 2/16/2007 5:00:48 PM The one instance (and I haven't had many opportunities, unfortunately) where the opposite occurred for me was the Mona Lisa. It didn't help that I had to hop up and down to see it over all the other people. So I went around the corner to some other Renaissance paintings and enjoyed them virtually alone.
Since I haven't seen it, I'll mention your experience of seeing it irl to the kids. They need to know, and I tell them when I can, what a shadow teaching or seeing in a book is compared to the real work. 8357. wonkers2 - 2/18/2007 2:17:23 AM A children's book banned for one word. Scrotum 8358. judithathome - 2/18/2007 5:15:28 AM Another massive picture with impact is The Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Also, in Paris, the most moving group of paintings I've ever seen, Water Lilies by Monet at the L'Orangerie on the grounds of the Lourve. They are in an oval room on the first floor...you walk into it and there is nothing on walls but these extended and curved canvases encircling the walls...in the center of the room are low circular couches that you sit on on and look around the room and feel immersed in the lily pond in Monet's garden at Giverney. 8359. prolph - 2/18/2007 8:04:21 AM remember when we were asked to give favorite poem in the fray?
we could all give our favorite art work, At the louvre i cared nothing for the mona lisa amd went strait for helenic area and of course i wasstoned so to speak wheni reached the stairs to then and looked strait up to winged victory.
first trip to london i was eager to see the elgin marbles
i was rushing toward them when my husband asked if i didn't want to see whaat i was about to step on and looked down to see the roseta stone.
so back to favorite poems "the world is so full of wonderful things..." 8360. wonkers2 - 2/18/2007 5:25:06 PM Goya is my favorite Spanish painter. Better than El Greco in my opinion and equal to Picasso. 8361. wonkers2 - 2/18/2007 5:31:10 PM A single word in a children's book creates an uproar. Scrotum 8362. wonkers2 - 2/18/2007 5:32:21 PM Sorry! My memory's going! Saw the story on the Internet yesterday and again today in the morning paper. 8363. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 2/18/2007 6:30:02 PM FYI Department: Robert Hughes has a wonderful book out now on Goya.
For wabbit and other interested parties:
Re “What They Keep for Love” by Randy Kennedy [Feb. 11]
:
Alanna Heiss, whose P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center is showing works that artists refuse to sell, says of the exhibition: “We are talking about religion here, aren’t we? We’re talking about God.” As an artist I have to ask: How much God is there in art theories like appropriation, deconstructivism, simulation and consumerism, which from the mid-1970s on have dominated the syllabus of many institutions that teach, critique and exhibit art?
Blame for the current state of the art world lies not only with the legions of wealthy collectors purchasing status in the souks that make quantity art shopping easy, but also with the style of art that our contemporary scholars have valued above all, art that illustrates what we know intellectually in place of art illuminating what we do not.
Sara Klar
Brooklyn
8364. judithathome - 2/19/2007 1:05:57 AM Robert Hughes is my favorite art critic. And he's a sexy guy, to boot! 8365. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 2/19/2007 4:02:53 AM Not anymore, Judith. I've been reading his autobiography and he's a mess after his head collision in Australia a few years ago. 8366. alistairconnor - 2/19/2007 1:03:22 PM Mose's favorite female vocalist is someone whose name I can't remember now. It seems like it's two initials and a last name, but that may be someone else.
I'll bet it's KT Tunstall...
She became known in France because an ISP used this song in its advertising
(Black horse and a cherry tree)
I've been listening to the album over the last week, it doesn't resemble that song much but it's growing on me. 8367. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 2/19/2007 5:27:59 PM
Adorable with an infectious beat.
[That was meant to be head-on collision above.] 8368. arkymalarky - 2/19/2007 5:59:08 PM It was the name, Alistair, but that was my mixup. For her, Imogene'd da man.
WRT Tunstall, she doesn't do much for me, but I haven't heard much of her. 8369. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 2/21/2007 3:18:31 AM 
8370. prolph - 2/22/2007 7:09:39 AM wizard,i laughed out loud. thanks, patsy 8371. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/9/2007 12:51:38 AM My pleasure, Patsy!
Meanwhile . . .
Fishing Village, Red Boat, Foggy Morning 8372. wabbit - 3/9/2007 12:57:15 AM Beautiful. Quiet, still, beautiful. 8373. wonkers2 - 3/9/2007 3:57:19 AM Wiz, very nice! But where are the sailboats?
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