One of the most beautiful sights in nature.
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Category: Art and beauty
What is art? 🎨
You know it when you see it?
Something that appeals to you artistically, I might consider garbage. And visa versa.
It’s subjective.
Certainly, anything I could easily recreate is NOT skillful. NOT art.
This is not art …
This is not art …
Voice of Fire by Barnett Newman.
It’s 2 cans of paint, 2 rollers, canvas, and less than an hour.
Almost everyone would agree that Van Gogh was an artistic genius.
Impressionism was an original step forward in generating emotion through art.
I’d argue that Warhol was another original step forward.
Picasso, another genius.
The artist friend I admire most is Mike Sissons. Great in many mediums including sculpture.
The artist to study in 2024 is a young guy from Mexico — Gawx.
He’s also the most skilled video editor on YouTube in my opinion. Something like Van Neistat, but even better.
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Poem – Rave on John Donne
Rave On John Donne/Rave On Part Two is a 1983 song by Van Morrison.
THIS is poetry.
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Jungle – Let’s Go Back
Jungle is a British band closely associated with a dance troupe. Some of their videos, including this one, are one shot. Very cool.
Choreography by Shay Latukolan
Will West is the lead dancer.
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Portugal. The Man – Feel It Still
Catchy tune.
But I post here for the brilliant choreography by Emma Scherer using that song.
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It’s a reimagining of Bob Fosse’s choreography from the Rich Man’s Frug in the musical Sweet Charity (1969).
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A Death in Cornwall by Daniel Silva
A Death in Cornwall is the 2024 title and 24th in the series from Daniel Silva.
Jealous? 😀
Gabriel Allon is searching for a stolen Picasso.
I enjoy the smart, entertaining dialogue. There is a lot of dark humour.
Some of the most popular characters from past books make an appearance, including a Corsican goat. 😀
A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve …
Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary.
The victim is Charlotte Blake, a celebrated professor of art history from Oxford who spends her weekends in the same seaside village where Gabriel once lived under an assumed identity. Her murder appears to be the work of a diabolical serial killer who has been terrorizing the Cornish countryside. …
Gabriel soon discovers that Professor Blake was searching for a looted Picasso worth more than a $100 million, and he takes up the chase for the painting as only he can—with six Impressionist canvases forged by his own hand and an unlikely team of operatives that includes a world-famous violinist, a beautiful master thief, and a lethal contract killer turned British spy.
Silva writes lying on the floor. With pencils. On yellow legal pads.
No outline.
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Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet
I’m no art enthusiast.
But one genre I totally appreciate is Impressionism.
Impression, Sunrise (French: Impression, soleil levant) is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet first shown at what would become known as the “Exhibition of the Impressionists” in Paris in April, 1874.
The painting is credited with inspiring the name of the Impressionist movement.
Impression, Sunrise depicts the port of Le Havre, Monet’s hometown.
… the term “Impressionism” was not new. It had been used for some time to describe the effect of paintings from the Barbizon School. Both associated with the school, Daubigny and Manet had been known to use the term to describe their own works.
Apparently he painted this in one sitting. Giving us an impression of the moment.
DANCE ➙ Somebody That I Used To Know
by Gotye.
Fantastic.
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Here’s the original — and original — music video.
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Cunk on Earth – Eat THIS, David Attenborough 😀
Very. Funny.
On Rotten Tomatoes, 100%.
Cunk on Earth is British mockumentary TV, brilliantly skewering everything and everybody historical.
… stars Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk, an ill-informed investigative reporter …
The series introduces subjects such as the development of agriculture and early civilization, the rise of Christianity and Islam, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, the First and Second World Wars, the Cold War and the Space Race.
With an eye to the future, Cunk concludes the series with a speculative comment on the possibility of AI takeover. …
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An Afternoon in Florence
Hmm …
I debated taking the short train ride to revisit Florence, one of the most popular tourists cities in the world.
And on a sunny Saturday in May?
A hot, crowded tourist trap. The over-priced attractions were all lined-up and impossible to enter. BEST book your tickets online.
The one place I wanted to pay to visit was the Boboli Gardens. But the line-up at the ticket wicket was too much for me.
My favourite stop was Michelangelo Square, for the panoramic vista.
If you are some sort of puritanical prude, convinced you’ll burn in Hell if you see God’s creation without clothing — don’t come to Florence.
Michelangelo Gay porn is everywhere. 😀
I did my own walking tour of the major plazas and oldest bridge, Ponte Vecchio.
As a fan of statuary, Florence is a terrific outdoor gallery.
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On the advice of the waiter at a chic eatery 😀 called Porks in the central market (Mercato Centrale) in Florence, I had Tagliatelle with Amatriciana sauce for lunch. Better than Bolognese, I thought.
