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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Art But Were Too Afraid Of Getting A Lecture To Ask

Nov 21, 2010 18:51

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I kind of blame latinusername for this, though I am ultimately the one deciding to be a dork. Publicly. Again.

See, a while back she and I were talking about how delightfully earnest the Rococo movement was, and how pachyderms, and lots of them, seemed to be their answer to everything.

“Babies! Grapes! Babies with grapes! Moulding! An elephant! No...A ( Read more... )

art: this shit is crazy, i want in your cloisters, both our faults, artsy things

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mithrigil November 22 2010, 01:59:00 UTC

SLENDERMEN

AT A PRIDE PARADE

you had me at hello, dear.

wizzard890 November 22 2010, 02:11:28 UTC

I imagine he would look something like this.

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silver_sandals November 22 2010, 02:28:30 UTC

I personally hold Rococo even below abstract expressionism, except... it's kind of cute.

This is really good. Heeeee. Baroque as Reformation drama particularly. No actually it's all good. Heeee. Hee heee.

wizzard890 November 22 2010, 02:44:45 UTC

I can't hate on Rococo, I really can't. It's just too damn earnest. It just wants to show you the elephants! D= You'd have to have no heart to disappoint a gilded face like that.

silver_sandals November 22 2010, 03:20:50 UTC

...too many bunches of grapes, for me. And little cupids. With staring eyes. They scare me. They have a hidden agenda.

byzantienne November 22 2010, 02:39:11 UTC

Coincidentally, I am reading a lovely book about the Reformation right now.

YOU KNOW WHAT SUCKS? PROTESTANTS!

wizzard890 November 22 2010, 02:46:06 UTC

RITUAL FAIL TO THE MAX. THERE IS A REASON WE CAN'T GET HOLY WATER AT A BAPTIST CHURCH. THOUGH YOU'D THINK, WOULDN'T YOU? IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE NAME.

latinusername November 22 2010, 03:33:01 UTC

...I love you

wizzard890 November 22 2010, 03:36:04 UTC

Baptists fail at everything. Including snake handling.

plushielover177 November 22 2010, 03:03:17 UTC

Just so you know I Google image searched Rococo and got a picture of a dick-salad.

I think the British need to stick to their literature and stay the fuck away from modern art. :/ ...On second thought, maybe everyone should stay the fuck away from modern art!

wizzard890 November 22 2010, 03:09:28 UTC

...I am. So sorry. I have never seen a dick-salad in art anywhere. I was unaware of the danger.

See, I don't have a problem with "modern art". Mostly because "modern art" is a term that changes all the time, and is a little bit impossible to pin down. I don't mind abstract art, either, or even early Jackson Pollock. But most abstract expressionism, to me, commits the cardinal sin of artwork, which is to be, you know, sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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daegaer November 22 2010, 16:55:10 UTC

My icon shall convey my reaction!

twistedsheets10 November 22 2010, 03:08:25 UTC

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE.

WHERE.

NEOCLASSICISM: *holds a boom box over its head outside Antiquity’s window*

DYING BRB.

...ALSO BAROQUE. I'm Protestant, but one look at that? DEAR JESUS GOD.

wizzard890 November 22 2010, 03:11:43 UTC

RIGHT HERE. SAYING STUPID THINGS ABOUT ART.

And ffff, I'm Protestant too, but man, that moulding is ~tempting~, isn't it? It's like I can hear myself forgetting to care about transubstantiation.

Oh god this icon is so inappropriate.

fannypeaches December 16 2010, 19:03:40 UTC

I'm laughing so hard at all of this. And I'm at work, so stop making me laugh!