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Originally posted by BeBro
PWNED.
PWNED.
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That was my point
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I find them fun. The literary ones made me think of a number of authors id like to read, and got me reading literature again (a short story by Bradbury from a lit anthology most recently - and im intending to read Cannery Row). It sure beats most of the pointless political bashing.Originally posted by laurentius
These competitions are childish at most. Pop culture is such a vague and artificial concept that its nothing to be worked out about."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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USA:
Jackson Pollock
Willem de Kooning
Marcel Duchamp
Jasper Johns
Arshile Gorky
Roy Lichtenstein
Andy Warhol
David Hockney
Philip Guston
Roberto Matta
Mark Rothko
attached painting: The Moon Woman by Jackson PollockAttached Files"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
—Orson Welles as Harry LimeComment
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Europe:
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
Jean Dubuffet
Max Ernst
Francis Bacon
Lucian Freud
Frank Auerbach
Max Beckman
Stanley Spencer
Henry Moore
Andre Masson
Joan Miro
Marc Chagall
Henri Matisse
A few of these Europeans were past their prime.
attached painting: 3 Portraits of Lucian Freud by Francis BaconAttached Files"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
—Orson Welles as Harry LimeComment
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Thanks for the listings MosesPresley. LOTM as you can see both continents had fantastic artists at the time. Its impossible and unfruitful to compare them in terms of who was better than the other or the greatest of them all. Its just pointless. This isnt football match.Que l’Univers n’est qu’un défaut dans la pureté de Non-être.
- Paul ValeryComment
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Willem de Kooning: Excavation 1950Attached Files"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
—Orson Welles as Harry LimeComment
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Lucian Freud: ReflectionAttached Files"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
—Orson Welles as Harry LimeComment
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arent we grouchy. Thanks all for the pics. But this thread really just fell apart, with excess of grouchiness. The lit threads, we actually had some fun with, and we all learned something as well. Some folks got into the spirit of it - which included both the IRONY of a literary rumble, as well as actually exploring the comparison. Obviously you cant get to 28 points on one side, 27 points the other. You CAN get a broad sense of how they stack up. Which in the Brit vs French rumble was actually quite illuminating, and I think corrected some misconceptions all around.Originally posted by laurentius
Thanks for the listings MosesPresley. LOTM as you can see both continents had fantastic artists at the time. Its impossible and unfruitful to compare them in terms of who was better than the other or the greatest of them all. Its just pointless. This isnt football match."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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dp"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
—Orson Welles as Harry LimeComment
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Pollock shoots .... HE SCORES!
Blue Poles, this is my favorite Pollock painting.Attached Files"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
—Orson Welles as Harry LimeComment
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I raise you Salvador Dali:
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Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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I'll see your Persistance of Mammaries and raise you a Lichtenstein.
Attached Files"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
—Orson Welles as Harry LimeComment
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Please excuse me, but that one's just horrible.Comment
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Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Originally posted by Winston
Please excuse me, but that one's just horrible.
You're right and it's a fake. The real Lichtenstein is hanging on the wall behind the boy."In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
—Orson Welles as Harry LimeComment
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