Be an art critic
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Be an art critic
What did you see?
Last edited by Larry on Sat Feb 21, 2015 2:32 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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OK. I'll bite.
Sandhills, clouds - maybe the ocean. Setting or rising sun.
But what I'd like to see is what's over the other side.
Sandhills, clouds - maybe the ocean. Setting or rising sun.
But what I'd like to see is what's over the other side.
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I still don't buy the "official" narrative about 9/11. Oh sure, it happened, fcuk yeah. But who and why and how I'm, not convinced it was what we've been told.
You aren’t the room Yuke You are just a wonky cafe table with a missing rubber pad on the end of one leg.
Skipper
I still don't buy the "official" narrative about 9/11. Oh sure, it happened, fcuk yeah. But who and why and how I'm, not convinced it was what we've been told.
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i see the foods consumed, and the foods yet to be consumed.
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Looks like I failed the art critic test.Larry wrote:yeah ... that's what it is. What else is it, Trev?
Beanpole
You aren’t the room Yuke You are just a wonky cafe table with a missing rubber pad on the end of one leg.
Skipper
I still don't buy the "official" narrative about 9/11. Oh sure, it happened, fcuk yeah. But who and why and how I'm, not convinced it was what we've been told.
You aren’t the room Yuke You are just a wonky cafe table with a missing rubber pad on the end of one leg.
Skipper
I still don't buy the "official" narrative about 9/11. Oh sure, it happened, fcuk yeah. But who and why and how I'm, not convinced it was what we've been told.
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Clearly the dunes evoke the naked male figure, the curve of the buttock thru to the raised shoulder blade suggesting a post-sex male languor. The brooding sky is lifting and there is a hint of sun. It is not very subtle, but I suggest it is rather obviously a pedagogical polemic showing a resolute homo-eroticism forcing away the bleak wowserism of the cisgendered hegemony.
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foamy and his non-stop gratuitous sodomy rants is really starting to get to me.
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Old photo with a major lack of tonal variation. The identity of the picture may give it the symbolism it lacks as an image.
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
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It was taken in about 1880 - Somerton Beach in Glenelg. Just a pic of the dunes, the sea, what might be a ship on the horizon and clouds in front of the sun.
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Perhaps the identity of the photographer may give it some symbolic meaning.
I remember seeing one of the earliest photos taken in the NSW Art Gallery.
It was as boring as Fcuk. Just a grey rocky plane. The site of a major cavalry charge.
I remember seeing one of the earliest photos taken in the NSW Art Gallery.
It was as boring as Fcuk. Just a grey rocky plane. The site of a major cavalry charge.
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
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next ...
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not much later and can't be far from Glenelg.
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I saw one of those primo camping spots.
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I saw one of those primo camping spots.
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Crimean War, 1855 'Valley of the Shadow of Death' by Roger Fenton. one of the great photographs of war.Beanpole wrote:Perhaps the identity of the photographer may give it some symbolic meaning.
I remember seeing one of the earliest photos taken in the NSW Art Gallery.
It was as boring as Fcuk. Just a grey rocky plane. The site of a major cavalry charge.
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Geisha Girl with Watermelon, 1992, Nobuyosh Araki
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Perceptions; where were you blokes when they got handed out?
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it's a technically poor digital capture of a very average historical photograph
it hurts my eyes to look at it.
and it sure as shit ain't art.
it hurts my eyes to look at it.
and it sure as shit ain't art.
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I love it Larry.
First impression which hit like a steam train: australian explorers, nineteenth century dying of thirst and starvation. That eerie australian low sand dune scrub so alien and wild. Just beyond the shot and as if from their point of view, Australian aborigines stand watching, and waiting. Watching these pale alien invaders wander and slowly die.
It's a deeply affecting and alienating shot, from a European perspective.
Looks like home to me. The Australian coastline, the low scrub. The squint into the sea distance, scanning the horizon , looking, looking. For what?
First impression which hit like a steam train: australian explorers, nineteenth century dying of thirst and starvation. That eerie australian low sand dune scrub so alien and wild. Just beyond the shot and as if from their point of view, Australian aborigines stand watching, and waiting. Watching these pale alien invaders wander and slowly die.
It's a deeply affecting and alienating shot, from a European perspective.
Looks like home to me. The Australian coastline, the low scrub. The squint into the sea distance, scanning the horizon , looking, looking. For what?
I want Nightclub Dwight dead in his grave I want the nice-nice up in blazes
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