tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post926966124386670330..comments2024-03-28T23:47:08.912-05:00Comments on Althouse: "A game of brinkmanship began when the Musée d’Orsay here invited Julian Schnabel to choose paintings from its 19th-century collection to exhibit alongside his own works of art."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81945410050478709002018-10-10T19:11:42.904-05:002018-10-10T19:11:42.904-05:00I think that the point of modern painting is to cr...I think that the point of modern painting is to create a distinctive look, which, if it catches on, can be replicated without a great deal of trouble into a distinctive, but somewhat varied, trove of paintings that can be sold to collectors. The broken plate paintings fit this model, in that they are uniquely his, but don't have much to recommend them aesthetically or intellectually. Someone like Lucien Freud or David Hockney or Chuck Close seems a lot more rewarding to look at if you want to look at portraits.Two-eyed Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13362056028485363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72229283395105634692018-10-10T16:20:07.916-05:002018-10-10T16:20:07.916-05:00He comes across as kind of macho (for an artist) t...He comes across as kind of macho (for an artist) to be suspected for being gay. Just because he paints, including flowers? Maybe that's why he's got to glue smashed plates all over his canvasses, to look a bit tougher. daskolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08644768542015986565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79461147687464347402018-10-10T16:12:34.021-05:002018-10-10T16:12:34.021-05:00Maybe it's a bit gimmicky, but his plate paint...Maybe it's a bit gimmicky, but his plate paintings are really interesting to look at, with some of them really striking. I don't know about blue nude, but check out the portraits.daskolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08644768542015986565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-2126860895368016582018-10-10T14:33:34.757-05:002018-10-10T14:33:34.757-05:00I liked his movie "The Diving Bell and the Bu...I liked his movie "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" <br />It is about a man who, due to a stroke, can only blink one eye. Think of the challenge of making that into an interesting movie!<br />On the other hand, his broken plate paintings, which I saw at Berkeley in the 80's, are pretentious crap.Two-eyed Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13362056028485363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59937466697487865482018-10-10T13:39:09.519-05:002018-10-10T13:39:09.519-05:00Basic question from a farm boy (w/degree in Math +...Basic question from a farm boy (w/degree in Math + Nuclear Engineering via Rickover), who's been around the world 50 or 60 times:<br /><br />Who sees "Blue Nude with a Sword" & says, "Boy, I just gotta have that painting up on my living room wall"?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10778862200977478864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28335836890983251892018-10-10T12:45:28.408-05:002018-10-10T12:45:28.408-05:00"Your writing is clear, focused and cant-free..."Your writing is clear, focused and cant-free, with lots of irony and humor thrown in for good measure. You'll never be any good at Gender Studies."<br /><br />Thank you. I'm showing the way. It's okay if other gender-studiers don't follow me. I hate followers.Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23306522680211034802018-10-10T12:26:48.824-05:002018-10-10T12:26:48.824-05:00I'll have to look it up and view it again, to ...I'll have to look it up and view it again, to see how much my memory has beautified the palette of that scene.<br /><br />It wasn’t indelibly imprinted to your hippocampus?WKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07400976280794340974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23525786637980981182018-10-10T12:13:09.477-05:002018-10-10T12:13:09.477-05:00I know that living well is supposed to be the best...I know that living well is supposed to be the best revenge, but I would really enjoy watching Julian Snowball getting run over by a garbage truck full of his "works".Jupiterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13008508862847561845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1793111626682486452018-10-10T11:44:31.879-05:002018-10-10T11:44:31.879-05:00I remember thinking Julian Schnabel's film &qu...I remember thinking Julian Schnabel's film "Basquiat" had some very good moments.<br /><br />I have a hazy memory of a scene of someone bicycling through a suburban street, and the point-of-view shot up through the trees at the sky against the intro to Psychedelic Furs' "India": in my memory it is beautiful.<br /><br />I'll have to look it up and view it again, to see how much my memory has beautified the palette of that scene.<br /><br />I am Laslo.Laslo Spatulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723170304227216635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-24042780477092479942018-10-10T11:34:56.402-05:002018-10-10T11:34:56.402-05:00Can one imagine a hundred years from now a living ...Can one imagine a hundred years from now a living artist choosing Schnabel works to display alongside their own? I can't.Yancey Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16427042729449397357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59239977223545234912018-10-10T11:33:28.497-05:002018-10-10T11:33:28.497-05:00Oh yeah, the blue man is a figment of Pajama Boy&#...Oh yeah, the blue man is a figment of Pajama Boy's imagination. He sees himself as a fearless, and victorious warrior against.. against... something formless, but BAD!<br /><br />No genitalia are showing because they are life sized.JAOREhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11819907966430540035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-60991632966129553162018-10-10T11:32:41.264-05:002018-10-10T11:32:41.264-05:00This work of art is exactly the reason I never go ...This work of art is exactly the reason I never go to places that feature works of art.JackWaynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14711089367463277913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-571749932925898272018-10-10T11:31:17.639-05:002018-10-10T11:31:17.639-05:00
Are you enjoying the Gender Studies at Althouse t...<br />Are you enjoying the Gender Studies at Althouse this morning? <br /><br />More than the boring, one-dimensional and tedious diversity/sexual harassment training foisted on us during my working years.JAOREhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11819907966430540035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29548600432029588962018-10-10T11:30:56.149-05:002018-10-10T11:30:56.149-05:00"but why, with all those phallic symbols — th...<i>"but why, with all those phallic symbols — the pillars, the sword — do we see no genitalia between his legs?"</i><br /><br />Shrinkage- he has been swimming.Yancey Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16427042729449397357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25961650947550962342018-10-10T11:10:27.941-05:002018-10-10T11:10:27.941-05:00Brinksmanship: the art or practice of pursuing a d...Brinksmanship: the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping. Good thing someone backed down, else we might not have survived.<br /><br />Alternative headline: Artists being drama queens.BarrySanders20https://www.blogger.com/profile/01789985176386759263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44602032900333965232018-10-10T10:53:30.652-05:002018-10-10T10:53:30.652-05:00Is that red object not a bloody head he has just t...Is that red object not a bloody head he has just taken and dropped?<br /><br />Maybe the Blue Nude has no testicles because it's Kathy Griffin.Bob Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14217663230833386582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-22425510029171773812018-10-10T10:31:01.055-05:002018-10-10T10:31:01.055-05:00"Are you enjoying the Gender Studies at Altho..."Are you enjoying the Gender Studies at Althouse this morning?"<br /><br />Your writing is clear, focused and cant-free, with lots of irony and humor thrown in for good measure. You'll never be any good at Gender Studies.Richard Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12735773524374061429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-76439348750840827772018-10-10T10:24:11.467-05:002018-10-10T10:24:11.467-05:00It's a blue Amazon warrior or some variation. ...It's a blue Amazon warrior or some variation. All those phallic symbols -- the pillars, the sword, the fingers, the outstretched arms -- visually compensate for a lack of male attributes in the neo-male transgendered figure. The back turned to the observer heightens the mystery, and violence committed on our perception. It's a distasteful... artistic parody of #MeToo.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64453974732577138842018-10-10T10:08:37.388-05:002018-10-10T10:08:37.388-05:00His obvious steroid use led to testicular atrophy....His obvious steroid use led to testicular atrophy.Ralph Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915708905660273961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-46937046671744004272018-10-10T10:01:47.952-05:002018-10-10T10:01:47.952-05:00Schnabel glued broken plates to the surface of his...<i>Schnabel glued broken plates to the surface of his paintings to create a very heavy texture on which to paint. It was a big deal in the 80s in NYC, as I remember.</i><br /><br />When I got my MFA in the late '80s he was the poster child for everything wrong with the New York art world. He too obviously seemed to be an untalented self-promoter. But that was before Jeff Koons took the idea of self-promotion and built an empire with it.<br /><br />That was also before Schnabel directed Basquiat, which is a terrific movie.Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14520113896946845614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34521362683770084012018-10-10T09:55:51.140-05:002018-10-10T09:55:51.140-05:00@Crack
I used "seem" for a reason. The ...@Crack<br /><br />I used "seem" for a reason. The wives don't prove he's not gay. The big blue male nude made me want to look to see if he's gay, and I wanted to know because the depiction without genitals just looks really wrong and bad to me. Why show a man in that position with his legs spread wide and crouching and on pillars if looking up at his testicles was something you DIDN'T want us to do? Maybe he's saying <i>I'm not interested in men's balls. Really, I'm not. You can see that I'm not.</i> I read that as protesting too much.Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-87813337687732316422018-10-10T09:52:48.809-05:002018-10-10T09:52:48.809-05:00The first scene depicts a figure with a wig, in a ...The first scene depicts a figure with a wig, in a dress, perhaps a neo-female (or feminine male). The second scene depicts a figure with its back turned to the observer, perhaps an Amazon warrior, or a neo-male. These are masterful works of art that commit violence on human perception. The poignant symbolism for today's sex and gender conflicts, even for abortion rites and selective=child, is unmistakable.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-8723295421762321342018-10-10T09:47:39.196-05:002018-10-10T09:47:39.196-05:00Ann Althouse said...
"(Schnabel does not see...Ann Althouse said...<br /><br />"(Schnabel does not seem to be gay: He has married and divorced 2 women and have 5 children by them.)"<br /><br />He still seems like it to me. I was talking about marriage with a gay friend a few days ago and we decided the parameters, as gays define them, are too fluid to preclude it - even if they've had a wife, wives, or kids. I mean, gay men do have kids - <i>somehow</i> - and I haven't seen a gay "marriage" yet that isn't open, usually to the point of hilarity, so I don't know what anybody's doing, except to say, I'm not surprised somebody came up with this 57 genders thing, to try to explain <i>something,</i> because it acted as a kind of sunspot, defining my entrance into blinding ignorance.<br /><br />I needed to know.The Crack Emceehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55553985214963091522018-10-10T09:46:52.751-05:002018-10-10T09:46:52.751-05:00"plate painting"
Schnabel glued broken ..."plate painting"<br /><br />Schnabel glued broken plates to the surface of his paintings to create a very heavy texture on which to paint. It was a big deal in the 80s in NYC, as I remember. Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16540323038107924102018-10-10T09:45:17.084-05:002018-10-10T09:45:17.084-05:00Seems presumptious to put a contempory artist side...Seems presumptious to put a contempory artist side by side with the greats.Nonapodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04784387367088689624noreply@blogger.com