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Posted: 5/6/2004 7:16:52 AM EDT
Call me art-deprived, art-not-appreciated person, but I don't see what's a big deal about the painting. Well, besides, it's expensive, rare and its painter. School me on it. 
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Posted: 5/6/2004 7:21:16 AM EDT
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It's very well done and it tells a differant story to every person that sees it.
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Posted: 5/6/2004 7:21:26 AM EDT
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umm, there's only one and its being held hostage by those damn dirty frenchmen
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Posted: 5/6/2004 7:23:39 AM EDT
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Mona Lisa is neither male nor female. A rather intriguing painting, go see it in person, you will see what I mean (Lots lost in reproductions.)
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Posted: 5/6/2004 7:28:57 AM EDT
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It's the last painting that art critics actually like which was painted by
an educated inventive scientifically literate mathematically literate heterosexual European culturally Christian (maybe even the "real thing") pro-military man. |
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Posted: 5/6/2004 7:33:17 AM EDT
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How so? All I "see" is a painting of a female. Of course, I didn't see IRL. |
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Posted: 5/6/2004 7:38:50 AM EDT
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I'll say!  Do you really want to know more, mojo? I dabbled in art history at LSU and can give you an earful of some insightful, pedantic shiite, if you'd like!  Eric The(ClassyAndCultured)Hun 
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Posted: 5/6/2004 7:42:09 AM EDT
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Google up Salvador Dali.
Get back to me after you go to the Dali Museum in St. Pete, FL.
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Posted: 5/6/2004 7:48:49 AM EDT
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That open to debate... |
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Posted: 5/6/2004 7:50:40 AM EDT
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Give it up, hielo, the man is dead!
BTW, here is the Moaner Lisa:  Eric The(Parodic)Hun
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Posted: 5/6/2004 7:53:28 AM EDT
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Touché - I'm a terrible debater. (Only one criticism from hielo - I'm either onto something, or I'm rapidly losing it, or I'm rapidly asking for it.  )
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Posted: 5/6/2004 7:58:23 AM EDT
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 Eric The(Constant)Hun
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Posted: 5/6/2004 7:58:28 AM EDT
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Heilo is a Master debater. </rim shot!> TRG PS. Going back to junior high now... |
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Posted: 5/6/2004 7:59:47 AM EDT
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EricTheHun, I didn't know you were a Tiger, when were you at LSU?
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Posted: 5/6/2004 8:21:58 AM EDT
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Seriously Yes. I mean, some theories say that it was his portrait, some says it was his mother....Or maybe, it was his way to allow people to have an open interpretation based on the eyes of the beholder. The painting looks 'live'...I see a lot of modern paintings looking 'live' also. |
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Posted: 5/6/2004 8:27:57 AM EDT
[#15]
 Dali. Man With His Head Full of Clouds. 1936 Dali rocks. YMMV.
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Posted: 5/6/2004 8:35:00 AM EDT
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If you want to see something that looks 'live', take a peek at a Michelangelo sculpture, WOW! |
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Posted: 5/6/2004 8:51:05 AM EDT
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Da Vinci painted it. Shitter graffitti would be priceless if it was done by Da Vinci. Not that I'm calling Mona Lisa worthless if Da Vinci wasn't the artist.
Mainly because it's part of the Renaisance, and the painting expresses genuine human expression while adhering to rational univerally appealling geometric ratios (golden rectangles) |
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Posted: 5/6/2004 9:12:15 AM EDT
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I could never see the appeal of Picassos work. Stuff looks like crap to my unartistc eyes.
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Posted: 5/6/2004 9:13:26 AM EDT
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Really? Have you seen anything like his work before? He was very groundbreaking and original. |
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Posted: 5/6/2004 9:14:12 AM EDT
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Couple of things I didn't know about the Mona Lisa that I recently learned (I'm art-stupid, by the way)
1) The painting is relatively small, not even 3ft. x 2ft. I always thought of it as larger 2) It's painted on a hunk of wood, not canvas. |
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Posted: 5/6/2004 9:35:20 AM EDT
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Rap music was ground breaking and original too. My unartistic ears think that is crap also. Maybe I am just to visually concrete to appreciate Picasso. |
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Posted: 5/6/2004 9:36:49 AM EDT
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"Groundbreaking and original" does NOT equal "good." The first person to get bubonic plague was "groundbreaking and original," too. One more vote for crap. |
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Posted: 5/6/2004 11:16:23 AM EDT
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Mine also. I guess: different strokes for different folks. |
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Posted: 5/6/2004 11:23:31 AM EDT
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The only thing I know about it is that countless people believe that it is a female version of the painter himself. They argue that the distance between the eyes/nose/ears/etc are all the same on Mona Lisa as they are on Da Vinci. No one can prove or disprove that it's really a self-portrait, but such a claim has made me interested in it for some reason. Other than that, I never really understood the hoopla either.
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Posted: 5/6/2004 11:25:40 AM EDT
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Isn't/wasn't it relatively common for artists to use a mirror for reference? |
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Posted: 5/6/2004 12:40:54 PM EDT
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Some people see a half empty glass, some people see a half full glass.... some people look through the glass to see what's inside it.
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Posted: 5/6/2004 12:48:41 PM EDT
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some artsy-fartsy guys said it was cool hundreds of years ago, and we've all been brought up to regard it as the best painting ever, without ever even questioning how run-of-the-mill it is. anything's art, paint a picture of one of my turds and it'll be in le louvre in 150 years with the right pr team.
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Posted: 5/6/2004 1:59:42 PM EDT
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And there's nothing in it.
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