Well, it appears I jumped the gun in coming to roger’s defense. I should have known he would handle it himself, and in the gracious way he just did as I was agonizing over selecting the wording my last post.
And roger, yes, Asian guys definitely have a way with being direct. I recently took a friend’s BMW Z3 roadster in for an oil change as a favor while she was out of town. The garage she suggested was operated by an excellent Asian fellow. I’m less than six feet but I’m still way too big for that car, especially with the top up. (Yes, it’s a convertible.)
At any rate, I arrived just as he was opening his shop and lifting the door to the oil change bay. As I tried to exit the car I hit my head on the top. I backed up, bent as low as I thought necessary and tried to exit the car again. BANG! Hit my head again, real hard this time.
Finally, I managed to extricate myself from this tiny automobile and turned to find him chuckling hilariously and pointing his finger at me he said, "YOU ARE TOO BIG FOR DAT CAR!
I pit three people who would have shown up on my five most famous posters list but I didn’t want to leave other people out. These just happen to be the three people that I am least likely to flirt with because, for wildly different reasons, I like them very much and my husband knows that. (And I adore my husband – the one I met by flirting on a computer.)
I am grateful, however, that all three posters showed up in the same anti-flirting thread and gave me a chance not to flirt with all three at the same time. Don’t let my gratitude go to your heads though. I’m old and forgetful and tomorrow I won’t remember that I was grateful.
It’s duffer, isn’t it? I mean, the third one. He was giving me a pistol whipping yesterday.
Don’t mind Starvers. He was just trying to impress you by the fact that a) he had read the book (probably the abridged Reader’s Digest version) and b) he was able to take a critical stance.
Well, actually, I’m ashamed to have to admit I haven’t read it. I merely posted that in revenge for mr. thornhill’s disparaging remarks vis-a-vis “the scribblings of an inconsequential Dutch artist.”
(Oh, and by the way, roger, that book is a biography, not an autobiography. But be of good cheer! You’ve said you like Van Gogh’s work and the book is chockablock (Cheerio!) with superb reproductions.
Starvers, what follows won’t be pretty, but it falls into the category known as tough love…
I wish I could say I was surprised.
Um, Starvers, when I wrote ‘scribblings’, I did so quite deliberately, in reference to his art. You know, scribblings = sketches, the things you do before you slap the paint on.
Perhaps I could commission you to do a painting one day. Walden pond, perhaps?
Yes, it’s true. My screen name belies my conservative and non-tree hugging, non pond-sitting nature. The apparent hypocracy was unintentional, I assure you. When I first joined it was because I’d heard from a very smart relative of mine that there were a lot of smart people here and that I could probably find out a lot about art here. I had no idea when I joined that art would play such a minimal role and that politics would play such a large one. If I had, I’d have chosen a more appropriate name…something like, oh, I don’t know…Ted Nugent, perhaps?
That’s what I thought the first time I read it, but upon further reflection I thought that perhaps you were of the impression Van Gogh himself had scribbled out the story. This because you may have forgotten I had mentioned the author’s name in our previous discussion, so long, long, ago.
Perhaps. Maybe I could paint it in a lively pop-art style. Then again, I’ve been gravitating toward abstracts (both action and color field) lately. Who knows?..the possibilites are endless.
But then again, your money would play an important role in the decision. I am a conservative, you know.
So am I. When I was over in the States, I’d have you know that I went to dinner at the Kennel Club (no jokes, please) and sang a song for the Rotary Club. I also shot clay pigeons with a bloke wearing dungarees, and his wife cooked fried green tomatoes for lunch.
So, if I do commission a painting from you (and I have a nasty stain on one of the walls to hide), then I don’t want no modern art shit (i.e. “abstracts”). If I want one of those done, I will put paint on the hamsters’ wheels and then get them to roll off the mess on a piece of blank paper.
Valle de Oro is one my favorites also. But, fair enough. Thanks. I would have liked you to enjoy them more and I thought you would, but I’m glad you were frank about your opinion rather than sugar-coating it on my behalf.
Okay (just trying to get a feel here), here is some work by a pop-art guy that is pretty clever and likely to appeal to your borderline lascivious nature:
I would recommend ‘Political Pop’ for overall guality, although the message becomes monotonous after awhile, and ‘Prosaic Pop’ for a more visceral type of enjoyment.
P.S.: I’m not really angling for a commission here, you know…just playing around with a guy who has some smarts. Let me know if I’m giving you more than you really want to know here.
“You’re on my list of things to do tonight” eclipses all the rest. She’s even got a tattoo, and I don’t mind a woman smoking, at least the image of a woman smoking. Cigarettes, I mean. I’m not a comic fan, though, so all that Dick Tracey stuff leaves me cold.
It’s another reminder of how cultural humour is. A lot of the jokes I don’t get. \
Okay, here’s one more and it’ll be the last one for tonight, I promise. I hope you’ll be able to discern the skill and complexity because this guy is fabulous. His work is somewhat impressionistic and somewhat realistic at the same time. He is especially wonderful with faces.
If you click on the ‘Painting Archive’ link, you can browse his work year by year. If you don’t want to go that deep, I would suggest the 2004 paintings.
One other thing: notice the picture of the two young girls painting located near the bottom of the 2004 page. Note how there is very little real detail to the girls’ faces, yet they are rendered in such a way that your eyes fill in the blanks and you feel as though you know exactly what they look like, even to the point that you could recognize them on the street.
He certainly has a thing going for Asian birds, and his portraits are excellent. Only I don’t have much interest in portraits. I do, however, love landscapes. My favourite of his is:
