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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]
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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? 8374. alistairconnor - 3/9/2007 10:48:45 AM Damn fine Wiz... but now I can't find the "work in progress" versions you posted a while back... I wanted to compare them. 8375. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/9/2007 11:07:50 PM Many thanks, all. Wonk, they're coming, but slowly–I still have a lot to digest about sailboats, and Alistair, I think those studies are somewhere in The Cafe.
I'm getting ready for a show called "Outports And Fishing Sheds."
Here's a watercolor study from Newfoundland . . .
8376. judithathome - 3/9/2007 11:19:52 PM Whoa...I love that! I like how the water absorbs some of the sky color and the village seems to be playing referee between the two! 8377. arkymalarky - 3/10/2007 12:43:13 AM I agree with Judith. I love them both and the red and blue in both. 8378. prolph - 3/10/2007 6:13:20 AM wizard, you are a great artist thanks for your paintings, patsy
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