I can't figure out Simon Schama (who does Power of Art on PBS, he just spent an hour telling how much he hates the French painter David). Is he just naturally bitter? Is he overwhelmingly jealous that no one's going to remember him in two hundred years? Is he oneof those people incapable of separating the painting from the painter?
Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.
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Connie Neil - Jul 16, 2007 6:57:38 pm PDT #801 of 23273
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bon bon - Jul 16, 2007 7:26:43 pm PDT #802 of 23273
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Three Men and a Little Lazy are pretty cute.
Kathy A - Jul 16, 2007 8:24:03 pm PDT #803 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Is Schama a royalist? Because that would make his hatred of David somewhat understandable, if frightfully dated. The guy did die almost 200 years ago, after all.
I'm just looking forward to next week's ep on Turner--he's probably my favorite painter.
Connie Neil - Jul 16, 2007 9:11:11 pm PDT #804 of 23273
brillig
Is Schama a royalist?
I'm not sure, he got very incensed when moving into David's period as painter to Napoleon, something about being just addicted to power, and Schama seems very offended by something about "The Death of Murat". I think Schama has a real detestation for anything resembling representationism in art, that art isn't legitimate unless smart people have to stare at it and debate its Meaning.
Laga - Jul 16, 2007 9:14:05 pm PDT #805 of 23273
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
This Death of Marat?
le nubian - Jul 17, 2007 6:31:39 am PDT #806 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Kathy A - Jul 17, 2007 6:32:27 am PDT #807 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yep, that's the one, Lee
I think Schama has a real detestation for anything resembling representationism in art, that art isn't legitimate unless smart people have to stare at it and debate its Meaning.
Feh on him, then. Like I said upthread, I love Turner, but when it gets too fuzzy/nonrepresentational, I just tune out. Guernica is about as abstract as I can take.
bon bon - Jul 17, 2007 6:40:40 am PDT #808 of 23273
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
What happened on that episode? Schama doesn't like David?
lisah - Jul 17, 2007 6:54:46 am PDT #809 of 23273
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What happened on that episode? Schama doesn't like David?
My folks are into that show, evidently. I talked to them before it was on last night and my Mom was talking about how much she was looking forward to the show but that she hates David. I don't know why.
lisah - Jul 17, 2007 6:54:48 am PDT #810 of 23273
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WHOA FINGER SPASM!