First, I draw some details from a nice "Temptation of St. Anthony" painting by Teniers — with my word balloons):
Next, I record a little drama about the relationship between human beings and artwork... and between Dutch and German:
(Enlarge.)
August 25, 2005
The Amsterdam Notebooks—Page 25.
It's Day 25 of this 35 day project. (The set thus far.) I'm in the Rijksmuseum.
First, I draw some details from a nice "Temptation of St. Anthony" painting by Teniers — with my word balloons):
Next, I record a little drama about the relationship between human beings and artwork... and between Dutch and German:
(Enlarge.)
First, I draw some details from a nice "Temptation of St. Anthony" painting by Teniers — with my word balloons):
Next, I record a little drama about the relationship between human beings and artwork... and between Dutch and German:
(Enlarge.)
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This one made me laugh out loud. I used to work in a gourmet food shop and many of our customers were older Germans. I wouldn't call them stupid necessarily, but god love 'em, they were a pain in the ass to wait on. They tended to be perfectly nice and pleasant until we were out of something they wanted, or their meat wasn't sliced just right. Then it was like the furies unleashed.
When I was being cross-culturally sensitized, I was told that Americans would stop in front of a natural wonder and try to photograph it either with no one in the foreground, or with their pervert wagon (Winnebago). Japanese would spill out of a tour bus and line up in front of the attraction, so that the picture had faint pink lineaments, say, showing that the Grand Canyon lay behind the crowd. Germans would ask to photograph your gun.
Pox! That I could'st but sketch
O! Dreams a'many on souls I'd etch
but alas! n'er a pretty penny to fetch
empowering lust's dreams like a vile wretch
naught but scribbled nudes, the feast of a letch
-Lonely Donut Man
Teniers, Eh?
Weird. From the sketch, I would have put big money on Bosch. Maybe fish-riding imps with pointy hats were all the rage in Belgium.
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