It’s strange: If you look at samples of Jungstedt’s artwork, you see many skillfully done human portraits, but also numerous depictions of mundane scenes of working men that might just as well been photographed. What was his purpose in doing those, and who bought those paintings?
It’s still the same old story, / Hard labor in the quarry, / On that you can rely. / The world will always seek new marble, / It’s petrified.
So give the cutters their due, / For all they shear and hew. / It’s never ending toil. / For statues, steps, or buildings’ facings, / It’s what they do.
(With gratitude and apologies to Herman Hupfeld’s As Time Goes By – 1931.)
(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Stone, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3057 (January 6, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.
Have been reading/listening to Roughing It by Mark Twain. Just finished a chapter describing his week working in a quartz mill, in which he broke up ore with a sledgehammer, shoveled it into a stamping mill, and then ran the fragments through various other processes to get the gold and silver out. He was fired when he asked for a raise from $5 per week to $400,000 per year because the work was that hard.
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
“I don’t get it. We make the big rocks into little rocks, then what?”
Solstice*1947 over 1 year ago
/// These Stone Workers don’t get any glory,
unlike sculptors, whose work tells a story.
They chop stone into blocks.
Where do they seek these rocks?
They must search until they find their quarry.
rmremail over 1 year ago
Wow, you mean in Sweden they PAY to make gravel? Back home in Russia we have it made for free
rmremail over 1 year ago
And this is why you should never tell the simple-minded to go pound sand.
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 1 year ago
It’s the old “find the hidden prize in a rock” prank.
ronaldspence over 1 year ago
winner of the “Most Pointless Portrait” contest,Western edition
Jayalexander over 1 year ago
Show me a man with “Stones”, I’ll show you a man who has no fear.
PraiseofFolly over 1 year ago
It’s strange: If you look at samples of Jungstedt’s artwork, you see many skillfully done human portraits, but also numerous depictions of mundane scenes of working men that might just as well been photographed. What was his purpose in doing those, and who bought those paintings?
P51Strega over 1 year ago
If you come out from the shade you won’t be such a pale-ontologist.
P51Strega over 1 year ago
I really dig fossils
Buzzworld over 1 year ago
“Everybody must get stoned”
Egrayjames over 1 year ago
The illusory search for Bitcoins.
Call me Ishmael over 1 year ago
“Are you sure Michelangelo started like this?
Call me Ishmael over 1 year ago
Nuthin is as horr’ble as to face a mass of marble in the mor-or-or in’…
Call me Ishmael over 1 year ago
“Sven, I think we’re taken for granite !”
rmremail over 1 year ago
A bunch of chiselers, the lot of them.
[Traveler] Premium Member over 1 year ago
Breaking rocks in the hot sun, I fought the law and the law won…..
jbrobo Premium Member over 1 year ago
Early rock festivals
wincoach Premium Member over 1 year ago
This picture is taken from a government handbook. Exemplifies the seven supervisors and one laborer principle. Well done!
Call me Ishmael over 1 year ago
There’s no doubt- it’s a tedious chore/
(Not to mention a crashing bore)/
But they’d rather crush stone/
Than sit somewhere alone/
In search of a metaphor..///
A career in mineral battery /
Will not win you a great deal of flattery/
You will never get rich/
But it beats writing kitsch/
And you’ll never lack camaraderie.
Linguist over 1 year ago
The Swedish Quarries rock!
Rev Phnk Ey over 1 year ago
Which one is Stoney?
Another Take over 1 year ago
He thought The Breaking Stones was a tribute band.
MuddyUSA Premium Member over 1 year ago
How the song “London bridges falling down” came to be written!
The Wolf In Your Midst over 1 year ago
“What do you want to do with your life?”
“I wanna rock!”
Snolep over 1 year ago
You can’t always get what you want.
anomaly over 1 year ago
Old time rock music.
Bookworm over 1 year ago
It’s still the same old story, / Hard labor in the quarry, / On that you can rely. / The world will always seek new marble, / It’s petrified.
So give the cutters their due, / For all they shear and hew. / It’s never ending toil. / For statues, steps, or buildings’ facings, / It’s what they do.
(With gratitude and apologies to Herman Hupfeld’s As Time Goes By – 1931.)
T... over 1 year ago
But this is just the Quarrymen…
mabrndt Premium Member over 1 year ago
Stone Workers:
Paste (including the quote marks)
"Category:Axel Jungstedt" site=commons.wikimedia.org
(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Stone, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting.
Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3057 (January 6, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.
gcarlson over 1 year ago
Witness: We were just talking about the Stones.
Judge: The Stones?
Witness: The Rolling Stones.
Rumpole: Jazz musicians, Your Honor, of some notoriety.
- Rumpole of the Bailey (vaguely remembered)
gcarlson over 1 year ago
Have been reading/listening to Roughing It by Mark Twain. Just finished a chapter describing his week working in a quartz mill, in which he broke up ore with a sledgehammer, shoveled it into a stamping mill, and then ran the fragments through various other processes to get the gold and silver out. He was fired when he asked for a raise from $5 per week to $400,000 per year because the work was that hard.
Running Buffalo Premium Member over 1 year ago
Whose turn was it to bring the papers and scissors?
How can we play if we don’t have papers and scissors?
gopher gofer over 1 year ago
after a couple tokes they’re stoned workers…
Khatkhattu Premium Member over 1 year ago
A stoned soul picnic? (tune from the 60s).
dwagon55 over 1 year ago
Has anyone seen Chip?
Funny_Ha_Ha over 1 year ago
Next week Earth Wind and Fire.
Call me Ishmael over 1 year ago
Rocky VII: the brain-damaged years…