OT: Famous Artists of the XXth Century

[Juan in Andalucía]

I was listening a Faemino y Cansado CD, and noticed there's a pipe in
one of the biographies, so here it goes:

Jeremias Patufet, painter:

Jeremías Patufet was born cross eyed and in Barcelona with a piece of
bread under his arm, which made his birth extremaly difficult.

In 1.942, by the age of 3, he is put on a plane destination Algeria;
his father, a very strict man, wanted his son not to depend on anyone
and make himself. Sadly, the plane crushes in the desert, and the young
Patufet is found by a family of camels which fed and educated him.
Later on, in 1.955 he contributed to the domestic economy making and
selling sandwatches.

In 1.960 he goes back to Barcelona (swimming), but his parents have
died in the sadly known shaft of the ramblas, from 1.957. He goes to
live with his uncle, Mr. Elías Patufet, painter and authour of the
famous painting "Bunch of Dogs Chasing a Deer with a Guy in the
Background Riding a Horse and Blowing a Horn". It was Mr Elías who
made the young Patufet get interested in art.

Jeremías, profiting of his crossed eyes, paints some tridimensional
works which astonishes the intelectuals of the age. Later on, he
becomes interested in Abstraction, but he get's so abstract that he's
about to be run over by a van. After this, he tries Constructivism,
creating his "Maple Tree Boulevard" which can still be visited today.

In 1.971 he marries Amalia Buñuelot, although their marriage didn't
last too long. Jeremías finds his wife in bed with a clay copy of
Miron's Discobolo. This fact started his Geometric era: drawing 2 big
circles he creates the famous "Two Titties are more Powerful than Two
Chariots" which today decorates the walls of the Feminist Party in
Berlin.

For his 46 birthday, his friends - noticing Jeremias was still very
sad- give him a present: a mandrill. Jeremías became a close friend
with the ape. In fact it was the mandrill who painted under his name
for 17 years while Jeremías learns how to smoke a pipe. From this
period are his most valued works.

But the association Save the Mandrilles discovers the fraud; Jeremías
has to escape from the rage of the ecologists. In the chase, he
stumbles, swallows his pipe, and dies.

Juan

[buck12ga]

Okay. Thanks for that, Juan, lol.

Puff puff,
Buck

[G. L. Pease]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:10:04 -0800, Juan in Andalucía, in tiny little tap
shoes, danced wildly on the keyboard to produce
(in article <1143238204.7...@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):

> I was listening a Faemino y Cansado CD, and noticed there's a pipe in one of

> the biographies, so here it goes:

Can I have some of what Cansado was smoking, please?

Great tale. Thanks for sharing it.

-glp

--
In Celebration of Briar - A Gallery of Pipe Photographs
http://www.glpease.com/Photos/PipeGallery
Updated 13 March, 2006

[Juan in Andalucía]

Faemino and Cansado are sick. Really weird humour. You should hear the
biography of Frederick Mocassin, an architect who after being the
spokeman of the "Colectivo Improvisa" (a provocation to the world of
architecture in which he invited to build without plans), built his
"Solid Cathedral" (used today as a wavebreaker), and his
"Unidirectional Transatlantic Bridge": a pharaonic proyect which tried
to link both continents, but which Mocassin, because of his constant
changes of mood, left unfinished.

Juan