Dada, can I have some Monet? I would like to buy some Dutch Masters.
They said the fruit in the bowl was dead, but I believe there was still life in that painting.
baslim etc: your opinion does not seem to be shared by most of the art historians (nor by most of the artists) I know.
Dada made a huge impression. As far as its good points, well, that’s kind of up to you.
re: Dada, brutalist architecture, twelve-tone music, etc.
We all need to make the occasional mistake in order to learn. Also, a truly great artist will at least occasionally transcend whatever style (s)he is using.
It’s a Salvador Dalí painting called ‘Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man’.
I chose it because the Dadaist movement is looked upon as the ‘Father’ of Dali’s surrealist style. Since you can’t really see it, it’s pretty much just a little joke for me.
:)
With as many bad jokes and good comic strips as have taken pot shots at, or been inspired by “Nude Descending a Staircase”, nobody should have to google it. And my use of the lower case “g” in “google” is intended as a deliberate insult. Hmph.
Oh, those of us who know our art history applaud this one. But I’ve been known to be the odd woman out when getting the joke before. You know who majored in English Literature or theater arts in a theater full of people watching Shakespeare in Love when a street urchin named Johnny Webster waxes rhapsodic about bugs and blood and killing. He wrote Duchess of Malfi, one of the few Jacobean dramas anyone ever bothers to produce and the clear ancestor of the slasher film. I saw that film its opening weekend and lost it laughing at little Johnny. I was one of about ten people who did. The rest of the place had NO idea why we laughed.
Begging your pardon in advance for being compusive – can’t help it – it’s a compulsion! – but when a proper noun (“Google”) is used as another part of speech, i.e. a verb (“to google”) it isn’t capitalized. So whatever your intentions, you were grammatically correct not to capitalize it… .I am the grammarian about whom you have been warned… .
Also, I think Duchamp had the last laugh – he has now become enshrined in the very “art establishment” he spent a good deal of his career industriously (and gleefully) sending up.
Joe_Minotaur over 15 years ago
Dada, can I have some Monet? I would like to buy some Dutch Masters. They said the fruit in the bowl was dead, but I believe there was still life in that painting.
Sisyphos over 15 years ago
“Dada”? Not at MOMA?!
oranaiche over 15 years ago
Good one(s), Joe!
cleokaya over 15 years ago
Where’s my Man Ray?
Kaero over 15 years ago
Yay! A Dada joke! Oh, joy, joy, scamdaddidlyumptious gallumping joy!
dewrite1 over 15 years ago
Baroque= what you are when your out of Monet
farren over 15 years ago
baslim etc: your opinion does not seem to be shared by most of the art historians (nor by most of the artists) I know. Dada made a huge impression. As far as its good points, well, that’s kind of up to you.
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
re: Dada, brutalist architecture, twelve-tone music, etc.
We all need to make the occasional mistake in order to learn. Also, a truly great artist will at least occasionally transcend whatever style (s)he is using.
shadowwriter over 15 years ago
uhhh….i’m sorry but i am not getting it, but i am bad with names, i assume he is some famous artist?
pschearer Premium Member over 15 years ago
June 19, 2006. Yes, ancient indeed.
(Many good jokes. Thanks all. Shadowwriter: Google first, ask after.)
Can anyone make out what the little picture is supposed to be?
Justjoust Premium Member over 15 years ago
It’s a Salvador Dalí painting called ‘Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man’. I chose it because the Dadaist movement is looked upon as the ‘Father’ of Dali’s surrealist style. Since you can’t really see it, it’s pretty much just a little joke for me. :)
cwreenactor over 15 years ago
ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!! LOL!!! Thanks.
ChiehHsia over 15 years ago
With as many bad jokes and good comic strips as have taken pot shots at, or been inspired by “Nude Descending a Staircase”, nobody should have to google it. And my use of the lower case “g” in “google” is intended as a deliberate insult. Hmph.
BlueRaven over 15 years ago
Oh, those of us who know our art history applaud this one. But I’ve been known to be the odd woman out when getting the joke before. You know who majored in English Literature or theater arts in a theater full of people watching Shakespeare in Love when a street urchin named Johnny Webster waxes rhapsodic about bugs and blood and killing. He wrote Duchess of Malfi, one of the few Jacobean dramas anyone ever bothers to produce and the clear ancestor of the slasher film. I saw that film its opening weekend and lost it laughing at little Johnny. I was one of about ten people who did. The rest of the place had NO idea why we laughed.
Gunnr over 15 years ago
@Roger, but not THAT one, the other one.
Begging your pardon in advance for being compusive – can’t help it – it’s a compulsion! – but when a proper noun (“Google”) is used as another part of speech, i.e. a verb (“to google”) it isn’t capitalized. So whatever your intentions, you were grammatically correct not to capitalize it… .I am the grammarian about whom you have been warned… .
Also, I think Duchamp had the last laugh – he has now become enshrined in the very “art establishment” he spent a good deal of his career industriously (and gleefully) sending up.
Are2Dee2 4 months ago
Punny