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The Woman Inside the Girl

By request: Shawn Phillips - " Power of a Woman" The Ballad of Casey Deiss:

John Cougar Mellencamp and Paul Simon - "Dirty Old Town" and two more!

Bless you , my child...;)

Chas - That's fine....Do we need the other ten thousand? ( That's leaving out the paintings by the Masters - I'm only referring to the schlock in the bookstores...) If I live to be a thousand will someon please help me water my plants?

OK! Dinner's done and I got my wine glass full.... time to post. For years I've jumped up and down and screamed about the pure unmitigated KRAP that gets sold in Christian bookstores as "Art." Just HOW MANY pictures do we really need of the following/: Jesus (isn't that close to a graven image anyway?) Praying hands Praying children Praying angels Praying cherubs (Which is the same as praying child angels) Angels oh and my favorite - NOT!: Small "quaint" cottages with lights on in the windows - all made "Christian" because of a scripture added to the bottom..... UGH! UGH! UGH! It is my opinion that Christian artists have yet to explore their real power. There is the phrase,"A picture paints a thousand words." I tend to agree with that. Also, although VP said this I still find it to be true: The Arts inspire emotion - ethics determines if that emotion should be inspired. What about "Righteous anger?" That has yet to be explored because artists are too busy painting the easy stuff and preaching to the choir. Give me some time to look up an article and I'll show you just what a painting can do.... Breathe ....breathe.... breathe......

There goes what's left of TWI..... We all know that the scary music makes it more powerful...... ;) ;) I can just "feel" the love..... So if I do enough drugs and feel good.....hmmmmmmm....I might have to try that!

UH-oh! Now I'm gonna' have to assemble my thoughts on my pet peeves...... You ready for this....?? Gotta' go cook dinner - then I'll come back and post. BTW - Waysider, I agree with your post - but now that floodgate is open.....

Thanks Chas! I can do BS too if it's needed. I just prefer to give the facts and let the viewer make up their own minds as to whether or not the painting is edifying....(UGH! did I really just say that??)

Raise the mast!

I'll get my boa, tiara ready! Do you know any sailor games......???

The composition is a variation of the classic triange base - where the dancers and the violinist form a semi-circle. Actually the flow of the painting brings the eye from the violinist to the dancers and back again - round and round. So much spin, so little time....Sigh... I could say that their legs all point away from him thus taking the emphasis away from his supposed "gayness." (That would be artistic psychobabble though. ) Seriously: There is a repetition and tension between the three dancers and the three windows. The windows provide stability to the composition like "columns of light." ( Spiritualize that!) I believe I heard someone complain that they were all backlit - thus their faces were in the shadows. Geez! Also, there was some mention made about that leg coming from the right edge of the painting. Seems that was offensive because it was a body part with no face. In reality, Degas had become emamoured with photography and the way that photos could crop a scene differently than a painting. If I wanted to I could write a commentary spinning this into the most edifying painting ever done. Deconstruction of the visual arts has been going on for years. (read a book titled The Painted Word, by Tom Wolfe.) So we listened to a woman who's expertise was in writing and allowed her to speak critically about the visual arts. STUPID! STUPID! STUPID :asdf:

Is this the same as "organ envy" ?

I only know how to do one of those things.......

If I'm not mistaken, that piece of art was one of Degas's paintings. I remember wincing while I read that. While I will be the first to say that Degas was a bit of a womanizer. I would be hard pressed to say that all his work should be ignored. Looking back now - how anyone allowed these people to tell us anything about the arts is beyond me.

Frank Zappa - "Dental Floss"

I guess my take on the matter is that Larry is not the issue here - Catcup is because she's the one feeling the pain. He seems to have his conscience seered like a steak on a grill. I'm not saying that Catcup shouldn't confront Larry - just that she shouldn't be surprised if she's not heard. He'll try to sell his book no matter what. And he'll also try to ignore her and others as well. Those that were salted in truth will find their way back to their calling - as will those that weren't salted but should have been. Too much to say and too tired to say it well for now. I agree with you - just want to make myself clear.

Stevie Ray Vaughn - "Pride and Joy" I just want to swing dance to this one!

Maybe Larry just needs to figure this out. Sometimes its just not worth the effort to confront someone face to face. Sometimes it's really not about the confrontation as much as it about getting it all out and allowing yourself to go through all the emotions.

My girls play piano. There is nothing better than the house being filled by their music! Thanks Satori!

What the Hey - sorry but you've spoken too soon. I did read everything I got my hands on regarding God's Word in culture - not only Elena's book but that little pamphlet that VPW wrote on (cough) ethics and God's word in culture. It's always hard to return to something once you've put it down. Even harder when you have to buy new equipment and work around a family and work schedule. What I had to discover was NOT how my art would fit in culture. Nor how God's word fit in the arts in culture. I had to figure out WHERE I FIT IN THIS WORLD in life after TWI.

My youngest used to ask:, "What today is it?" The candy was M&M&M&M's I miss that.....

I entered the Corps straight from The School of Visual Arts in NYC. I was full of enthusiasm for God and somehow using my art to do something good. Had to leave my paints and supplies behind - three years later they were gone because the person I left them with decided to use them and keep most of them. Twenty plus years later I finally returned to painting and added teaching drawing to children. It was like I never gave it up in some ways. Granted, I had spent the previous twenty years in a field that I was able to use my talents in - but it wasn't quite the same. I sometimes wonder what would have happened had I never stopped painting. Then I look at my kids and think that maybe I don't really care so much... The important thing is that you take what you have in terms of talent and desire and use it to communicate to others. Express yourself and let your soul be known - no matter how long it takes.

ok - try again... what the? couple walking...????(little word?) wheat/ grass of the moon