Culture Shock
Quentin
Let's do something
we responsible people
don't usually do.
Let's enjoy being
unethical, shall we?
Let's say me, you,
and a friend of mine
decide to rob a museum.
We will divorce the art
from the walls, then
disappear again, as subtlely
as a hippopotamus
lowering its head below water.
Underground, collectors
will take to us like kids
to the ice cream truck. C'mon,
you can't back out now.
After all, Anatomy, the study of
bones and musculature that served
Da Vinci so well,
could begin in your closet.
Show me where the bones
are buried, that spot 6 feet
deep within yourself
where art does not exist.
No blank slates, no clean canvases,
only paint splattered in so
haphazard a fashion,
even lovers of abstraction could not
figure out which way to hang you.
Yes, I'm a piece of work, aren't I,
to resort that.
Once inside, we shrink the museum's
inventory down to two paintings.
My friend snatches a Gouguin,
not only because it is one of two artists
he's heard of, but also the skill level
is well within his range to counterfeit.
Not that we will realistically sink to this,
but things happen. As if to underscore
how socialization paints guilt
into everything we do,
you want to steal a Monet.
The good thing
is that it's not too large.
But Manet is an Impressionist,
which technically means he uses dots
of color, not full strokes,
to make his point, and,
on another level,
this makes perfect sense because
we see the subject more clearly
as we move closer
and its dot patterns converge:
we see ourselves
stealing the painting
in the painting.
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Joy Yourcenar
This is a fun read but Monet and Manet are two different Impressionist
painters. Is that a typo?
Joy
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:15:17 -0400, "Quentin" <bis...@email.msn.com>
wrote:
NOW KISS MY ASS!!!!!!!!!!!
~Sharon McElroy~
Quentin
carmen
Joy Yourcenar
wrote:
>Yep, big time typo. Should be Manet in both places. Sorry about that!
>
No problem. I just thought I'd bring it to your attention because it
if wasn't a typo, I then had to ask what you meant.
Joy
I write most of my stuff without "thinking".
~Rick Fry~
carmen
Dale Houstman wrote in message <376EE98C...@gte.net>...
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>
>carmen wrote:
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>> and Gouguin is Gauguin
>>
>And Pissarro is Bizarro.
>
and Lipchitz is Lipstick
but Degas is Degas!
carmen
Athinker
lately, hasn't it? :)
Yay u!
Quentin wrote:
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>>If God wanted us to be brave, why did he give us legs? -- Marvin
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Dale Houstman
carmen wrote:
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> and Gouguin is Gauguin
>
And Pissarro is Bizarro.
DMH
Redclay 6
From: "carmen" <cc...@speakeasy.org>
Date: Mon, 21 June 1999 10:27 PM EDT
Message-id: <9300183...@news.remarQ.com>
Dale Houstman wrote in message <376EE98C...@gte.net>...
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>
>carmen wrote:
>>
>> and Gouguin is Gauguin
>>
>And Pissarro is Bizarro.
>
and Lipchitz is Lipstick
but Degas is Degas!
carmen>>
y'all red nit-skee?
Dale Houstman
carmen wrote:
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> Dale Houstman wrote in message <376EE98C...@gte.net>...
> >
> >
> >carmen wrote:
> >>
> >> and Gouguin is Gauguin
> >>
> >And Pissarro is Bizarro.
> >
>
> and Lipchitz is Lipstick
> but Degas is Degas!
>
>
I knew a man once who used to call Picasso "Pig's Asshole." I guess he
didn't like him.
If Degas is "da gas" is Duchamp "da champ"?
DMH
Dale Houstman
Redclay 6 wrote:
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> Subject: Re: Culture Shock
> From: "carmen" <cc...@speakeasy.org>
> Date: Mon, 21 June 1999 10:27 PM EDT
> Message-id: <9300183...@news.remarQ.com>
>
> Dale Houstman wrote in message <376EE98C...@gte.net>...
> >
> >
> >carmen wrote:
> >>
> >> and Gouguin is Gauguin
> >>
> >And Pissarro is Bizarro.
> >
>
> and Lipchitz is Lipstick
> but Degas is Degas!
>
> carmen>>
>
> y'all red nit-skee?
Wasn't Red Nitsky a fullback for the famous Flying Death Line in 1926?
DMH
carmen
Dale Houstman wrote in message <376F68E6...@gte.net>...
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>
>carmen wrote:
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>> Dale Houstman wrote in message <376EE98C...@gte.net>...
>> >
>> >
>> >carmen wrote:
>> >>
>> >> and Gouguin is Gauguin
>> >>
>> >And Pissarro is Bizarro.
>> >
>>
>> and Lipchitz is Lipstick
>> but Degas is Degas!
>>
>>
>didn't like him.
>
>If Degas is "da gas" is Duchamp "da champ"?
Dubuffet 'da buffet', Derain 'da rain'?
and Debussy?
carmen
>
>DMH
Quentin
Quentin
sarah spears
adrenolin in this peice, and your transitions are masterful. Consistent
tone and images- some wonderful word plays in here.
Very nice..:o)
Sarah
Quentin wrote in message ...
sarah spears
sarah spears wrote in message <7ko9ph$4qu$1...@nntp1.atl.mindspring.net>...
carmen
Quentin wrote in message ...
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Quentin,
you better use Monet
even if Impressionism does not technically means
the use of dots of color, instead of full strokes,
with Monet you can save those lines.
Manet does use full strokes, and loved black.
He is there in the edge of Impressionism, but not quite.
carmen
Michael Stephens
carmen wrote:
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> Dale Houstman wrote in message <376F68E6...@gte.net>...
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> >
> >carmen wrote:
> >>
> >> Dale Houstman wrote in message <376EE98C...@gte.net>...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >carmen wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> and Gouguin is Gauguin
> >> >>
> >> >And Pissarro is Bizarro.
> >> >
> >>
> >> and Lipchitz is Lipstick
> >> but Degas is Degas!
> >>
> >>
> >I knew a man once who used to call Picasso "Pig's Asshole." I guess he
> >didn't like him.
> >
> >If Degas is "da gas" is Duchamp "da champ"?
>
> Dubuffet 'da buffet', Derain 'da rain'?
>
> and Debussy?
>
Hey now, watch out!
ms
"The world is full of creeps." ~Rocky Balboa
> carmen
>
> >
> >DMH
Michael Stephens
You're one smart cookie. Hey, do you mind if I put some of your
paintings at my site (http://members.tripod.com/~mikestephens)? I was
thinking of some of those that you did for Sam's "neighborhood" poems --
the one of me and Sometimes, a few others. Please say yes.
ms
Michael Stephens
ms
nit-picker
carmen
Michael Stephens wrote in message <376FF65E...@worldnet.att.net>...
about the neighborhood you should ask sam first
if sam says yes, I say yes
carmen
Steve Layton
>didn't like him.
>
>If Degas is "da gas" is Duchamp "da champ"?
>
Actually there's a "DuChimp" website out there somewhere...
Dale Houstman
carmen wrote:
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> Dale Houstman wrote in message <376F68E6...@gte.net>...
> >
> >
> >carmen wrote:
> >>
> >> Dale Houstman wrote in message <376EE98C...@gte.net>...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >carmen wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> and Gouguin is Gauguin
> >> >>
> >> >And Pissarro is Bizarro.
> >> >
> >>
> >> and Lipchitz is Lipstick
> >> but Degas is Degas!
> >>
> >>
> >I knew a man once who used to call Picasso "Pig's Asshole." I guess he
> >didn't like him.
> >
> >If Degas is "da gas" is Duchamp "da champ"?
>
> Dubuffet 'da buffet', Derain 'da rain'?
>
> and Debussy?
Debussy Fields Forever...
DMH
Dale Houstman
Steve Layton wrote:
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> Dale Houstman wrote in message <376F68E6...@gte.net>...
> >I knew a man once who used to call Picasso "Pig's Asshole." I guess he
> >didn't like him.
> >
> >If Degas is "da gas" is Duchamp "da champ"?
> >
> >DMH
>
> Actually there's a "DuChimp" website out there somewhere...
"The Bride Stripped Bare by Monkeys"
"Ape Descending a Staircase"
"Rrose Simian"
Also: I didn't realize there was a website devoted to Robert Maughan?
DMH
Jerry H. Jenkins
Jerry
Dale Houstman wrote:
> >...I knew a man once who used to call Picasso "Pig's Asshole." I guess
> he
> didn't like him...<
>
> DMH
Redclay 6
DMH>>
had his own candy bar, the goober-man.
"At night, the ice-weasels come." -- Nietchze
Dale Houstman
Redclay 6 wrote:
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> Wasn't Red Nitsky a fullback for the famous Flying Death Line in 1926?
>
> DMH>>
>
> had his own candy bar, the goober-man.
>
Oh yeah, the Nitsky Nutsky; tasty but oddly enough packed with lug nuts.
The old lug himself reified in a rare crunch treat. "If you stare long
enough into the wrapper, the wrapper stares back."
My favorite footballer? Art Ramboo, the articulate (yet uncivil) "Ty
Cobb of the Touchdown" and quarterback for the Charleville Charlatans
from 1934-1941. Went to war and never came back. No candy bar, no small
time celebrity. All he left behind was three wild-eyed boys and a
smalltown full of grief. The little woman (Pauline) dedicated a gas
station in his name which is still operating (although its now the
Charleville Amoco). Ah, trhe heroes of our youth felled by time and
tactics.
DMH