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What is your favorite piece of art?
Posted on 5/21/18 at 10:32 pm
Posted on 5/21/18 at 10:32 pm
Poetry, paintings, etc.
My favorite painting is “Orphan Girl at the Cemetery” by Delacroix (don’t ask me why because I don’t know)
My favorite poem is either “Lebenslauf” by Hölderlin or “Lenore” by Bürger. Lenore reminds me of The Raven by Poe, not just because of the name but also the substance of the poem.
My favorite painting is “Orphan Girl at the Cemetery” by Delacroix (don’t ask me why because I don’t know)
My favorite poem is either “Lebenslauf” by Hölderlin or “Lenore” by Bürger. Lenore reminds me of The Raven by Poe, not just because of the name but also the substance of the poem.
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Posted on 5/21/18 at 10:34 pm to AllbyMyRelf
Starry Starry night.
Posted on 5/21/18 at 11:08 pm to AllbyMyRelf
Posted on 5/21/18 at 11:19 pm to BowlJackson
Eye Bleach:
This post was edited on 5/21/18 at 11:25 pm
Posted on 5/21/18 at 11:47 pm to AllbyMyRelf
Fernando Botero
And who could forget
And who could forget
Posted on 5/22/18 at 12:18 am to AllbyMyRelf
Posted on 5/22/18 at 6:19 am to TT9
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Starry Starry night.
Top 5 for sure
I'm a Frank Frazetta fan
Posted on 5/22/18 at 6:21 am to DownSouthJukin
That's both cool and lazy. 
Posted on 5/22/18 at 6:21 am to CNB
Family portraits?
Posted on 5/22/18 at 6:33 am to AllbyMyRelf
Posted on 5/22/18 at 7:06 am to KSGamecock
To scale, as well
Posted on 5/22/18 at 7:07 am to CNB
Damn, I feel like I should stop cyberbullying you now.
Posted on 5/22/18 at 7:12 am to KSGamecock
It’s okay
I have furreal friends to get me by all the depression and angst
Wilbur is an absolute unit:
I have furreal friends to get me by all the depression and angst
Wilbur is an absolute unit:
Posted on 5/22/18 at 7:14 am to CNB
That's some nightmare fuel right there.
Posted on 5/22/18 at 7:15 am to KSGamecock
Don’t talk about my babies like that
Posted on 5/22/18 at 7:17 am to CNB
Posted on 5/22/18 at 7:59 am to KSGamecock
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That's both cool and lazy
For some reason I’ve always liked that water color of his. It reminds me of my grandfather during the Depression. If I could find the original, and depending on price, I’d buy it.
Here’s another one I like:
This post was edited on 5/22/18 at 7:59 am
Posted on 5/22/18 at 9:49 am to AllbyMyRelf
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poem
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost, 1874 - 1963
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
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painting
Emanuel Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware." Oil on Canvas, 1851
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Classical Song
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C? minor "Quasi una fantasia", (Moonlight Sonata)
Moonlight Sonata
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Statue
Christ the Redeemer
Posted on 5/22/18 at 5:57 pm to KSGamecock
What are the spikes sticking out of the water? I’m assuming that prevents docking?
This post was edited on 5/22/18 at 5:58 pm
Posted on 5/22/18 at 6:07 pm to DavidTheGnome
Yes, the painting is of Cardinal Richelieu, Chief Minister of France, leading French Royalists in the siege of La Rochelle during the third Huguenot Rebellion.
Situated on France's Atlantic Coast, La Rochelle was a very large city in France at the time and predominantly Calvinist. Its residents did not initially join the rebellion but the English sent a force to a nearby island to support the Huguenots and to urge the city to rebel.
King Louis XIII was wary of the English and suspicious of La Rochelle so he sent a force to the city which was soon fired upon by a cannon, thus beginning the siege.
The Royalists built a 1400m long sea wall to prevent English relief convoys from reaching the city and it was successful in fending off two such attempts. The painting depicts Richelieu surveying the wall during one of the attempted reliefs.
I like the painting because it really captures what was going on in Europe at the time with the Huguenot Rebellions in France and the Thirty Years War in Germany. A Cardinal in armor, leading a siege of a Protestant city, walking the battlements against a Protestant raid. The Catholic church both attacking and defending. It's illustrative of not just that particular day in history but really of that whole half-century of turmoil.
American schools really only focus on American history and if they do touch European history it's mostly the Romans and British and maaaaybe the French Revolution and 20th Century history but very rarely does it touch on the Reformation or what was was going on on the Continent. It was a terribly bloody time that influenced all of those enlightenment thinkers to craft the political framework and values we have today.
Situated on France's Atlantic Coast, La Rochelle was a very large city in France at the time and predominantly Calvinist. Its residents did not initially join the rebellion but the English sent a force to a nearby island to support the Huguenots and to urge the city to rebel.
King Louis XIII was wary of the English and suspicious of La Rochelle so he sent a force to the city which was soon fired upon by a cannon, thus beginning the siege.
The Royalists built a 1400m long sea wall to prevent English relief convoys from reaching the city and it was successful in fending off two such attempts. The painting depicts Richelieu surveying the wall during one of the attempted reliefs.
I like the painting because it really captures what was going on in Europe at the time with the Huguenot Rebellions in France and the Thirty Years War in Germany. A Cardinal in armor, leading a siege of a Protestant city, walking the battlements against a Protestant raid. The Catholic church both attacking and defending. It's illustrative of not just that particular day in history but really of that whole half-century of turmoil.
American schools really only focus on American history and if they do touch European history it's mostly the Romans and British and maaaaybe the French Revolution and 20th Century history but very rarely does it touch on the Reformation or what was was going on on the Continent. It was a terribly bloody time that influenced all of those enlightenment thinkers to craft the political framework and values we have today.
This post was edited on 5/22/18 at 6:33 pm
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