Accepted a job offer

[Dauphin]

A fine endorsement.

I am curious what makes me anti-Christian though. Care to cite?

And I was brought up Catholic so I am well enough versed in teachings of the church and its history.

[N35t0r]

There's tons of amazing art, but if you don't like it :shrug:

I'd still not spend as long in the Louvre than, say in the Cité des Sciences et l'Industrie, but I just went there to see a couple of things I particularly wanted to (and, of course, the whole Egypt and ancient Greek sections, they are amazing). Not the Mona Lisa, it is particularly overhyped, just avoid it.

If you go to Berlin, the Pergamon Altar and Ishtar Gate are totally amazing.

[pchang]

Perhaps this kind of thing is more his speed: http://www.therichest.com/expensive-...-in-the-world/

[molly bloom]

Those paintings are boring. ..

You're an ignorant cretin. Nothing new there.

We're in the age of movies and video games

You might want to educate yourself into how we came to view representations of real world objects on computer screens and cinema screens and the television.

It has an awful lot to do with the Italian Renaissance discovery of perspective, Flemish painting and the use of improved lenses in the Low Countries.

On the other hand, I prefer you as you, a J.A.M.F. .

The appeal of looking at paintings is pretty low for the non-pretentious.

Ah, that stand-by of the dull and stupid, 'pretentious'.

Means nothing, can be squeezed into almost any context, and covers vast swathes of ignorance.

Luckily for you...

Now architecture might be more interesting if only for its scope...

Pretentious ?

Tu ?

[molly bloom]

Plus, molly has conveniently gathered them here for us, thus saving HC the need to travel.

If I can post an item of art from every country of the world, just imagine what a favour I'd be doing for the world's inhabitants.

Perhaps a Sidney Nolan painting of his time in Antarctica might save that continent too...

...but I'm rather attached to the idea of little H.C. taking a one-way trip there.

Preferably on foot.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Those paintings are boring. We're in the age of movies and video games. The appeal of looking at paintings is pretty low for the non-pretentious.

Whut? Have you seen the queues at the Louvre?

No, of course you haven't. Keep those blinkers on.

[molly bloom]

Whut? Have you seen the queues at the Louvre?

No, of course you haven't. Keep those blinkers on.

You'd never guess that paintings and sculpture and architecture can tell us about the rise of the mercantile class, international trade, the use of state propaganda, the truth about changing historical relations between Islam and Christianity, the division of Europe into Protestant and Catholic camps, the meteoric rise of an Italian firm of pawnbrokers to the status of European Royalty, the African gold trade, voyages to the Pacific, the growth of the slave trade, childhood mortality, how people viewed the prospect of death and the afterlife, medical discoveries, optics, the spread of alchemy, and so on and so on.



The arrogance of the ignorant is a wonder to behold.

[Al B. Sure!]

You might want to educate yourself into how we came to view representations of real world objects on computer screens and cinema screens and the television.

It has an awful lot to do with the Italian Renaissance discovery of perspective, Flemish painting and the use of improved lenses in the Low Countries.

So instead of flying in a 737, maybe HC should go to Europe in a canvas and wood aircraft to educate himself on the origins of flight

The technical and physical act of painting and the story behind the art vice the piece of art itself was already explained to you in this thread.

[Al B. Sure!]

You'd never guess that paintings and sculpture and architecture can tell us about the rise of the mercantile class, international trade, the use of state propaganda, the truth about changing historical relations between Islam and Christianity, the division of Europe into Protestant and Catholic camps, the meteoric rise of an Italian firm of pawnbrokers to the status of European Royalty, the African gold trade, voyages to the Pacific, the growth of the slave trade, childhood mortality, how people viewed the prospect of death and the afterlife, medical discoveries, optics, the spread of alchemy, and so on and so on.



The arrogance of the ignorant is a wonder to behold.

Yup and going to a museum is the only way on earth to learn that!

[C0ckney]

i'm shocked to discover that such highly cultured men as al b. sure, reg, and HC don't like art.

[Al B. Sure!]

I don't see the point of going to a museum to look at it. There is no lost value in the photograph of a painting.

[DinoDoc]

Whut? Have you seen the queues at the Louvre?

Is it weird that I'd rather go to the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle if I were in Paris?

[C0ckney]

I don't see the point of going to a museum to look at it. There is no lost value in the photograph of a painting.

so your objection is not (as it was in post 208) to paintings themselves, but rather to museums as places?

[DinoDoc]

I don't see the point of going to a museum to look at it. There is no lost value in the photograph of a painting.

Paris also has the Musée de l'Armée for you to enjoy. Philistine.

[C0ckney]

Is it weird that I'd rather go to the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle if I were in Paris?

why not both; they deal with very different subjects after all.