OT Monet nonsense
Otto Mation (Caroline Freisen)
LOL! Suzy, too bad it wasn't just fly specks. You could have washed
them away! What's the name of the painting? I'll check it out on the
net. Wanna see if I see trees too.
As for squinting, *ALL* artists do it. It saves a lot of steps
because you can stand withing brush distance of your canvas, squint,
and get the same effect as if you'd stepped back six or seven feet. I
started studying art at five, started squinting at seven or eight,
started wearing glasses at about twelve. I often wonder if I'd have
needed glasses if I hadn't discovered oil painting so young...?
But... Squinting is good. Hey, it can make even an ugly guy look
good close up! '-)
Caroline
Who stopped squinting at men with her last divorce.
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:29:06 GMT, bzel...@earthlink.net (Buzz Elkins)
wrote:
>
>A few years ago I went to the Monet exhibit in New Orleans. It was
>wonderful. Huge paintings, and if you got close to them you could see
>that there was quite a bit of what looked like white canvas mixed up
>in there. If you stood back and squinted it all made beautiful sense.
>I read where his eyesight failed later in life so was attributing the
>squinting stuff to that.
>
>I bought a print. A large print that I hung over my bed. For years
>every morning I get up and squint at it. Something has been wrong.
>It just wasn't working. My son and I have discussed it. He thinks
>there are two people standing way back in the painting and I think
>they're trees.
>
>Well, today I'm looking at it really close (have to get on the bed to
>do that) and I notice a wrinkle. A wrinkle! There's this opaque kind
>of shrink wrap on it and I get it off.
>
>NOW it's totally perfect and makes sense. In fact, it's brilliant. I
>really think it's two trees now. It's a good day.
>
>Paula, if you are reading this you can throw rocks at me..
>
>Suzy
Tom Wood
TW
"Buzz Elkins" <bzel...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:3d5558d6...@news.earthlink.net...
> On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 17:37:44 GMT, bzel...@earthlink.net (Buzz Elkins)
> wrote:
>
> >It's called, THE ARTIST'S GARDEN AT GIVERNY, 1900.
>
> Here it is.
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/last/giverny/monet.giverny.jpg
>
> I looked at several website versions, and none of them have the colors
> right.
>
> But you know what? If you squint at it long enough it looks like a
> dark-haired man without his shirt and a blonde woman with a white
> two-piece thing on and maybe majorette boots.
>
> Suzy (the power of art)
Otto Mation (Caroline Freisen)
wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 17:37:44 GMT, bzel...@earthlink.net (Buzz Elkins)
>wrote:
>
>>It's called, THE ARTIST'S GARDEN AT GIVERNY, 1900.
>
>Here it is.
>
>http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/last/giverny/monet.giverny.jpg
>
>I looked at several website versions, and none of them have the colors
>right.
>
Maybe the colors and aspect ratio is better at the Musee d'Orsay,
where the original lives. You can find a poster print of it in their
gift shop at:
http://www.shop.musee-orsay.fr/EN/fiche.asp?code%5Freg=IA200241
Then if you want the colors correct, there is a softwar program called
"eColor - Colorific" that you can install on your computer, and then
you have to run the wizard, and after that it will either match the
original colors exactly, or it will tell you when colors are not
matched. Mine shows the colors are wrong at both the Musee d'Orsay,
and at the website you gave. You probably have to go to Paris to see
the colors right.
>But you know what? If you squint at it long enough it looks like a
>dark-haired man without his shirt and a blonde woman with a white
>two-piece thing on and maybe majorette boots.
>
I don't see that, but in the upper middle left hand there is a silver
poodle peeing on a tree.... Probably belongs to Monet's girlfriend.
Caroline
Paula
wrote:
>Well, today I'm looking at it really close (have to get on the bed to
>do that) and I notice a wrinkle. A wrinkle! There's this opaque kind
>of shrink wrap on it and I get it off.
>
>NOW it's totally perfect and makes sense. In fact, it's brilliant. I
>really think it's two trees now. It's a good day.
>
>Paula, if you are reading this you can throw rocks at me..
>
>Suzy
President Ford visited San Antonio way back and decided to endear
himself to the locals by partaking in some regional cuisine. He tried
to eat a tamale with the corn husk still on it.
Kinda like that, huh, Suzy?
Haha. I swear, your life is one unending laff-riot. You would be so
fun to ... observe! YOU need a "reality" show - not Anna Nichole
Smith. I'D watch!
Paula
Paula
wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 17:37:44 GMT, bzel...@earthlink.net (Buzz Elkins)
>wrote:
>
>>It's called, THE ARTIST'S GARDEN AT GIVERNY, 1900.
>
>Here it is.
>
>http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/last/giverny/monet.giverny.jpg
>
>I looked at several website versions, and none of them have the colors
>right.
>
>But you know what? If you squint at it long enough it looks like a
>dark-haired man without his shirt and a blonde woman with a white
>two-piece thing on and maybe majorette boots.
LOL - I see them! But I think Claude would have gone with a more
subdued one-piece. But at least there aren't any damned water-lilies!
(My anti-Impressionist phase persists - bad experience with
gallery-squinting and sofa-sized art painted to coordinate with the
La-Z Boy....)
I always thought it was amusing that very early on in their careers,
Monet and Renoir would go out together, paint a few paintings
outdoors, set them up side by side when they'd finished ... and they
would be virtually identical.
But it wasn't until Matisse, of course, that majorette boots REALLY
became the iconographic symbol we know them as today.
Paula
Dr. Jai Maharaj
Have the eyes checked and seek treatment, if necessary --
especially yogic eye exercises -- from an eye specialist
in your area.
Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
In article <3d554381.145841865@news-server>,
ot...@elp.rr.comnospamplease posted:
Paula
wrote:
>I'm an art idiot.
I'm certainly not calling you an art idiot (or even thinking it).
Different art appeals to different people.
> Who is that guy you like with the distorted bedroom
>scene? I like that stuff.
Tom Pribyl - my favorite contemporary artist (whom I've met several
times because he lives here). He does interiors almost exclusively -
living spaces (unpopulated by people) oftentimes filled with mundane
items like fast food wrappers or TV Guides. His rooms are so
wonderfully stretched-out and distorted (especially evident in the
hardwood floors and bowed doorways) that you get dizzy looking at
them. Like Thomas Hart Benton, if Thomas Hart Benton ate at Taco
Bell:
http://enculturation.gmu.edu/1_2/pribyl/
(Look at the slide show.)
The bedroom painting is called "Rod" (and it doesn't really look like
his other works - it's much brighter and more sort of "cartoony") -
it's at the bottom of this page:
http://www.edithbakergallery.com/pribyl.html
>Thanks for you kind comments.
>
>Suzy (did Matisse wear majorette boots?)
I've heard rumors....
Paula
BuzzGrief
>From: bzel...@earthlink.net (Buzz Elkins)
><tomw...@flash.net>
>wrote:
>
>>I dunno, I'm still focused on the upside down dragon's head to the far left.
>>
>>TW
>Well, you made me turn upside down, but I *think* I saw it right
>before I fell out of my chair.
>
Suze? Did you ever think if you turned the print around you might...oh never
mind.
As Paula says, you *are* a laff-riot.
The other Buzz
"Movies are for sissies" B.J.Grief
BuzzGrief
>From: rub...@att.net (Paula)
>But it wasn't until Matisse, of course, that majorette boots REALLY
>became the iconographic symbol we know them as today.
Suzy:
>My band broke up over Matisse one time.
You two!! I wanna see a reality show with both of you discussing paintings,
books and snakes. And playing old-timey music.
Oprah, eat your heart out.
MC
buzz...@aol.com (BuzzGrief) wrote:
>
> Suze? Did you ever think if you turned the print around you might...oh never
> mind.
>
> As Paula says, you *are* a laff-riot.
>
> The other Buzz
I don't care too much for Monet.
Monet can't buy me love.
Otto Mation (Caroline Freisen)
wrote:
No. It's MANET can't buy you love. Monet can buy you everything if
you go to his house.
Richard Milton
> Well, today I'm looking at it really close (have to get on the bed to
> do that) and I notice a wrinkle. A wrinkle! There's this opaque kind
> of shrink wrap on it and I get it off.
I predict that you'll regret removing the wrinkle before
the week is out. It'll never be quite the same picture
again. When I was a teenager I blew a week's wages
on a scratchy recording of 'Tanhauser' conducted by
Furtwangler. I played it over and over for months. At
the crucial moment in the overture, Furtwangler becomes
so excited he stamps his foot on the podium and it's
clearly heard above the orchestra. When I got a real job
I could afford digitally mastered recordings by
Deutsche Gramophon of the greatest orchestras and
the world's best conductors -- but none of them has got
my stamp at the right moment, and I'll always miss it.
Richard
--
"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."
Jebediah Springfield