Art
 

We have a music thread, but we didn't have an art thread, you [I]Kulturbanausen![/I]!

Max Ernst - "Die Jungfrau züchtigt das Jesuskind"
Mary is spanking poor baby Jesus so hard that his halo fell off.

Matching Mussorgsky:

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwiU6P16xU0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwiU6P16xU0[/URL]

[quote=__HRB__;196093]We have a music thread, but we didn't have an art thread, you [I]Kulturbanausen![/I]!

Max Ernst - "Die Jungfrau züchtigt das Jesuskind"
Mary is spanking poor baby Jesus so hard that his halo fell off.[/quote]
At the obvious risk of being arrested in these PC days, I love it.
I shall wait for an image which falls on the "acceptable" side of
that thin line before posting:smile:
David

PS my "Music" thread was a bit of a slow burner to start with.
PPS There is a poster named "Postwhore" which the Gerbils
deened acceptable as a link, but not as a thumbnail.
Consult 10metreh on this one.

Rumor
 

Unfortunately this is a low quality JPEG. The details of the original are wonderful, especially the expressions of the people in the windows/following the rumor.

[URL]http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Rene_Magritte/pipe.jpeg[/URL]

PS and I didn't inhale

Artie Farty
 

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grHAqD3zA68[/URL]

Tracy Tracy Emin

Before davieddy does
 

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a502RejLz8s[/url]

[I]All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.[/I]

I repeat.
Flouran 1987:
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQFo2-xZiks[/URL]
Or better:
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HZ7-Kj9Szc[/URL]

Jamie Blandford

Greek Vases I
 

Regrettably the music thread ([url]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=11399[/url]) was shut down by the censors for unknown reasons, but surely there is no controversy about great works of ancient art.

Here is a fascinating example of an Attic red-figure column krater featuring an erotic scene. The reverse side does not feature pederasty and zoophilia and therefore will not be subject of part II.

...and at the going down of the sun...
 

[quote=__HRB__;200646]Regrettably the music thread ([URL]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=11399[/URL]) was shut down by the censors for unknown reasons, but surely there is no controversy about great works of ancient art.

Here is a fascinating example of an Attic red-figure column krater featuring an erotic scene. The reverse side does not feature pederasty and zoophilia and therefore will not be subject of part II.[/quote]


:goodposting:


As you will understand I am too depressed about the closing of the
music thread to say much ATM.
I'll just explain that the Last Post was inviting comment on the
iconic/ironic classic "It's going to work out fine" by Ike and Tina Turner.

Nimrod

Greek Vases II
 

An Attic black-figure cup depicting pederastic courtship, ca. 530 BC–520 BC. Found in Athens. Current location: Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully, first floor, room 39, case 10

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHacDYj8KZM[/url]

Specifically 3:28 to 3:32
but depending on your taste there could be "art" all through this audio/video montage.

Bird in Space
 

[QUOTE=__HRB__;200691]An Attic black-figure cup depicting [B]pederastic courtship[/B], ca. 530 BC–520 BC. Found in Athens. Current location: Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully, first floor, room 39, case 10[/QUOTE]

Now that it is proved that one can get kiddie-porn past the censors if it is 2500 years old, here is the subject of something much more controversial: what makes it art?

[QUOTE=wikipedia]"Bird in Space" was the cause of a court battle due to the piece being taxed by U.S. Customs. The argument was in regard to Brancusi stating that the sculpture was 'art' and not taxable materials. Time magazine reported the event thus;
"Rumanian Sculptor Constantin Brancusi had to pay $4,000 to bring his Bird in Flight into the U. S. ... Works of art are duty free. But Sculptor Brancusi's bird had neither head, feet nor feathers. It was four and a half feet of bronze which swooped up from its base like a slender jet of flame. [B]Customs Inspector Kracke said it was not art;[/B] merely "a manufacture of metal . . . held dutiable at 40% ad valorem." The press bantered, jibed. Indignant modernists wrote abstruse, defensive paragraphs. Sculptor Brancusi complained to the Customs Court.
"Last week Sculptor Brancusi won his case. In its decision the Customs Court dogmatically defined art: "It is a work of art by reason of its symmetrical shape, artistic outlines and beauty of finish." Even the most wretched of logicians knows enough not to repeat the same term in both subject and definition ("art" —"artistic outline"). But Sculptor Brancusi had his money refunded."[/QUOTE]

Uff, that was a close one. Artists vs. nincompoops - 1:0; courts vs. logic - sqrt(-1):0.

[QUOTE=__HRB__;200699][Attach]4516[/attach][/QUOTE]I have seen the original of that in person.

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;200711]I have seen the original of that in person.[/QUOTE]

A friend of mine has a chess set where every pawn is a Bird in Space (and the other figures are in the same style) but I've never seen the original, uh, live. I'd want to touch it with both hands, so I'd probably get into trouble...the janitor who gets to clean it must has one of the coolest jobs.