If your life was a work of art ...

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:45 pm

emmline wrote:maybe without such pointy nails.

No way, emm...you have to have the nails!! They are way cool! Right up there with bubble wrap!

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:49 pm

This one or the one below:

Or

With this new job, my life is can be either serenity and clamity or both at the same time.

MarkB

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:35 pm

Here's the painting that immediately came to mind-

But then, I realized there's another-

This Icart has the skye, music and the twenties. Sums me up pretty well, I guess.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:43 am

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 5:59 am

That's a pretty special angle Steve.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:57 am

I love this thread. Everybody has posted such great art (except Nanohdreon

).

I wasn't aware that we could choose art other than paintings (thanks, Steve!). If we can choose art other than paintings, I would change my mind.

Ergo, I changed my mind. I now choose this one:

It is by Dorothea Lange, and called "Migrant Mother."

Dorothea Lange wrote:I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean- to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it. (From: Popular Photography, Feb. 1960).

mamakash · Post by **mamakash** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:04 pm

If my persona was a painting . . . it would have to be an Olivia. Unfortunatly, I won't post an Olivia because well . . . oh dear, it would end my membership in C and F, scare the children, infuriate the women and intrigue the fellows.

There is a second choice. John Waterhouse. "The Lady of Shallot."

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:01 pm

I always like that Waterhouse picture, everyhting in it is so fine ... except the woman's face. Why would he wreck the whole thing like that? And whats wrong with shallots, anyway? I mean, they make a nice change from onions, don't they?

djm

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:54 pm

I don't know. Maybe my life isn't a work of art. Maybe art is more an expression of life.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:42 pm

mamakash wrote:If my persona was a painting . . . it would have to be an Olivia. Unfortunatly, I won't post an Olivia because well . . . oh dear, it would end my membership in C and F, scare the children, infuriate the women and intrigue the fellows.

Oh dear. Can you give me a hint what an Olivia is? Is there a last name attached or anything? I tried googling but I couldn't really figure it out. I have a terrible case of curiosity. If you would rather not give a hint, that's okay too.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:56 pm

djm wrote:I always like that Waterhouse picture, everyhting in it is so fine ... except the woman's face. Why would he wreck the whole thing like that? And whats wrong with shallots, anyway? I mean, they make a nice change from onions, don't they?

djm

Well, how is the poor woman supposed to look? Happy? She is getting ready to sing her death song!

Part IV.

In the stormy east-wind straining,
The pale-yellow woods were waning,
The broad stream in his banks complaining,
Heavily the low sky raining
Over tower'd Camelot;
Down she came and found a boat
Beneath a willow left afloat,
And round about the prow she wrote
The Lady of Shalott.

And down the river's dim expanse--
Like some bold seër in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance--
With a glassy countenance
Did she look to Camelot.
And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott.

Lying, robed in snowy white
That loosely flew to left and right--
The leaves upon her falling light--
Thro' the noises of the night
She floated down to Camelot:
And as the boat-head wound along
The willowy hills and fields among,
They heard her singing her last song,
The Lady of Shalott.

Heard a carol, mournful, holy,
Chanted loudly, chanted lowly,
Till her blood was frozen slowly,
And her eyes were darken'd wholly,
Turn'd to tower'd Camelot;
For ere she reach'd upon the tide
The first house by the water-side,
Singing in her song she died,
The Lady of Shalott.

Under tower and balcony,
By garden-wall and gallery,
A gleaming shape she floated by,
A corse between the houses high,
Silent into Camelot.
Out upon the wharfs they came,
Knight and burgher, lord and dame,
And round the prow they read her name,
The Lady of Shalott.

Who is this? and what is here?
And in the lighted palace near
Died the sound of royal cheer;
And they cross'd themselves for fear,
All the knights at Camelot:
But Lancelot mused a little space;
He said, "She has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott."

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:56 pm

Cynth wrote:Can you give me a hint what an Olivia is?

This is what I have been able to glean so far:

The "Lady of Shallot" was a poem by Alfred Tennyson. His poem was based on a figure in Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte D'Arthur" named Elaine, who was in love with Lancelot. But Lancelot only had eyes for the queen, Guinevere. So Elaine went and locked herself away in a tower on the Island of Shallot and died of a broken heart. If only she new he had the clap. Pretty drippy stuff. But there's some other flakey stuff on the web (imagine that!) by someone styling herself Olivia d'Orleans who is also attaching herself to the title "Lady of Shallot". Things get pretty goofy from there.

djm

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:04 pm

djm wrote:
Cynth wrote:Can you give me a hint what an Olivia is?
This is what I have been able to glean so far:

The "Lady of Shallot" was a poem by Alfred Tennyson. His poem was based on a figure in Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte D'Arthur" named Elaine, who was in love with Lancelot. But Lancelot only had eyes for the queen, Guinevere. So Elaine went and locked herself away in a tower on the Island of Shallot and died of a broken heart. If only she new he had the clap. Pretty drippy stuff. But there's some other flakey stuff on the web (imagine that!) by someone styling herself Olivia d'Orleans who is also attaching herself to the title "Lady of Shallot". Things get pretty goofy from there.

djm

Well, you just have to be in the right mood for these things. That Olivia d'Orleans, at least the one I found, didn't seem like she would be infuriating to women. She was saying not to lie down and die like the Lady of Shalott. Okay, total confusion and time for bed.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:15 pm

Cynth wrote:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedFores ... hallot.jpg" width=300>

I think that Lilymaid had that for her avatar before.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:50 am

Walden wrote:
Cynth wrote:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedFores ... hallot.jpg" width=300>
I think that Lilymaid had that for her avatar before.

That was my first thought, too.