Amazing Art

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 14 Jun 2005, 15:04:40

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one as
beautiful as you

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will

by **oowolf** » Tue 14 Jun 2005, 15:28:48

The loose lock of hair has a long history. Here's a cameo of Livia Drusilla, wife of Augustus, that's 2000 years old. I have a glass cameo of Livia of which I have digital images but I don't know how to paste into this forum. Livia (IOULIAS SEBASTES <Julia Augusta>) was the first woman's image to appear on a Jewish coin.
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-bin ... 3BEutyches

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 14 Jun 2005, 15:44:03

I didn't see what your link provided. Seemed like too much downloads involved and I cancelled the operation. If you have an image which is from the internet, just right-click it and click 'copy image location', then come over here and and right-click and click 'paste'. Then you can manually put [img]in%20front%20of%20it%20and[/img] in back of it. That's how I do it. (btw, your last post really screwed up this page!)

by **oowolf** » Tue 14 Jun 2005, 15:53:38

by **oowolf** » Tue 14 Jun 2005, 15:56:47

>>***<< (sound of head banging against wall)

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 14 Jun 2005, 16:38:58

Any whiz bangs that can help the wolf? That appeared to me to be the way to post an image.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 14 Jun 2005, 21:21:28

I read several biographies of Paul Cezanne before I came across the information that he a had hearing trouble. I was astounded. People with normal hearing have no idea what it is like to not be able to hear what other people are saying. I have that problem and it haunts my everyday life. Some nice lady sits down across the table for lunch and says something to you. As usual, you don't know what she said. Its happened a thousand times before and you just can't say, 'I'm sorry, I'm hearing impaired and you must speak up' Its just casual socialization and who needs to have disabilities thrown at them. Paul Cezanne is my hero. I admire him more than anyone else. He lived to see himself honored for his work. And what marvelous work he did! (BTW Thomas Edison was also hearing impaired)

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 14 Jun 2005, 21:23:01

Hey administrators, can't you fix the problem on this page?

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 14 Jun 2005, 21:36:57

It was the analytical, mathematical spirit that Cezanne expressed. The finest fruits of the human mind are mathematical. That is how we reach God. It was a very French notion, as well as German to try and reach God through logic, calculation, and intelligence. My own experiences with mathematics, particularly number theory, lend strong support to Cezanne and his ideas about Art.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 14 Jun 2005, 21:50:02

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 14 Jun 2005, 21:52:46

This spirit of self-revelation goes back to Rembrandt.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Tue 14 Jun 2005, 21:55:03

The Book Of Judith in the Old Testament has provided a theme which many painters of old used.

by **Macsporan** » Tue 14 Jun 2005, 23:43:14

My bad. I meant that when I clicked on it I just got a message that this website was unavailabe: ie a dead link.

I'd love to see the picture, if only I could.

by **OilsNotWell** » Wed 15 Jun 2005, 01:47:33

PMS, I've been following the threads here and find them fascinating...art and music and other arts are necessary for deeper meaning, reflection, and completeness in our lives...adn we'll re-discover them on a much broader level, in a much more prevalent way than today, as this civilization declines and redefines, IMHO

But I just noticed the classical oil painting of the two women with a basket and was initially so interested in the colors, textures, expressions, etc, that I failed to notice: A) She was holding a sword B) She had blood drops on her, and C) the human head in the basket...

I realized it the second time it was posted.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 15 Jun 2005, 11:20:40

OK, fixed it. I downloaded the image to my computer and then uploaded it to myspace.com from whence it comes here! Caravaggio's version of Judith beheading Holofernes:

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 15 Jun 2005, 11:23:46

Gentileschi's version

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 15 Jun 2005, 11:26:16

Lucas Cranach's version

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 15 Jun 2005, 11:31:03

And more recently it was done by Gustav Klimt. I like this one for the interesting look of the sultry Judith - she looks like someone who could do such a thing.

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 15 Jun 2005, 11:37:16

by **PenultimateManStanding** » Wed 15 Jun 2005, 11:42:42

Makes you wonder if Zarqawi ever saw these? Probably not, but I'll bet he did see the movie Braveheart where the Scots cut the head off of the English commander of York.

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