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[inkstainedruth]

20 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Dali had a few paintings with boats, most of them eerie.  
 

I never saw a Dali painting in real life, apart from his enormous 'Crucifixion,' under which I stood awestruck until I had to be dragged away.

Which one did you see?  Because I wasn't familiar with the piece and just looked it up online and there two (at least) that I found on a quickie search -- the one with the cubes in place of nails, and the one that seems to be floating horizontal to the ground.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[yazeh]

4 hours ago, LizEF said:

I did wonder about that dark shadow under the boat, if perhaps something was lurking there...

Or maybe some benevolent creature, or a buddy of Earl of Grey

[LizEF]

47 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Or maybe some benevolent creature, or a buddy of Earl of Grey

Twist!  Love it.  Not sure the Earl has friends - he's kinda dull...

[yazeh]

48 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Twist!  Love it.  Not sure the Earl has friends - he's kinda dull...

He just needs to soak into a bit of hot water

 

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

He just needs to soak into a bit of hot water

 

[Sailor Kenshin]

6 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Which one did you see?  Because I wasn't familiar with the piece and just looked it up online and there two (at least) that I found on a quickie search -- the one with the cubes in place of nails, and the one that seems to be floating horizontal to the ground.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

 

I think it was the one with the cubes.  Massive piece, nearly colorless.

 

 I've been to the Guggenheim, the Met, that big Los Angeles art museum, many others large and small.  I've seen Rembrandts, Durers, Goyas, you name 'em.  Nothing before or since ever struck me like the Dali.

[inkstainedruth]

Have not been to California, but a number of years ago I spent an afternoon in the Art Institute of Chicago.  (For anyone who's ever played the old art auction game Masterpiece, the artwork in the game are postcard-size replicas of pieces from that museum).  And sort of by accident, I ran across a tour group with a docent in the American gallery, while the tour was looking at the painting that has been mocked and parodied for decades -- the Grant Wood painting "American Gothic".  And what struck me about that piece the most?  It's SMALL -- less than three feet high, and just over 2 feet wide (and that might include the frame).

I had to go to NYC for my Modern Art class in college, to the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim, and pick something in one of the two and write a paper about the piece I saw plus about the architecture of the museum it was in.  Only at the time, what was on at the Guggenheim was a de Kooning retrospective, and by the time I got out of the museum I had a MAJOR headache.  Plus, my professor absolutely hated and despised Frank Lloyd Wright and was I'm pretty sure that she thought the museum was alive and out to get her....  So I tried to NOT let her opinions color my paper, and wrote about a small sculpture (forget who it's by) that just HAPPENED to be in my textbook for that class....  

Must have worked because I got an A for that class.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[yazeh]

@inkstainedruth, I really enjoy your stories. Whether is the museum story above or the cat jumping the bath. Glad you got an A

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks!

I really did like that professor, even though I thought she was a little nuts.  The sister of someone I knew had been her grad student/lab assistant at one point, and the professor would CONSTANTLY yell at whoever was running the slide show in the lectures.  But the person who I knew said that her sister told the story about the professor (who was short and sort of squat and built like a Mack truck) being in some church in Spain and getting told to leave by the priest because she wasn't dressed "appropriately" (by wearing a sundress).  And the professor, as she was leaving, turned around and stood in the doorway and said (apparently QUITE loudly, and in PERFECT Spanish) "THESE FEED BABIES!  YOU HAVE A DIRTY MIND!" 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

 

[yazeh]

11 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Thanks!

I really did like that professor, even though I thought she was a little nuts.  The sister of someone I knew had been her grad student/lab assistant at one point, and the professor would CONSTANTLY yell at whoever was running the slide show in the lectures.  But the person who I knew said that her sister told the story about the professor (who was short and sort of squat and built like a Mack truck) being in some church in Spain and getting told to leave by the priest because she wasn't dressed "appropriately" (by wearing a sundress).  And the professor, as she was leaving, turned around and stood in the doorway and said (apparently QUITE loudly, and in PERFECT Spanish) "THESE FEED BABIES!  YOU HAVE A DIRTY MIND!" 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

 

Ah brilliant, good for her  It's incredible how this obsession with female anatomy drives some fake religious character nuts. If they took some art classes they would realize that the human body has the most beautiful lines and is a temple in it's own right

 

[inkstainedruth]

Now you're making me think of my first life-drawing class.  The first time we had a nude model, I was a little freaked (I was only 19), but then was okay.  Until later in the semester when we had a MALE nude model.  Then Iw was freaked out all over again (really did NOT know where to look) until halfway through the studio (which was three hours) and during the break the model pulled on his turtleneck (nothing else!) because it was December and sort of chilly in the room as well -- and went around trying to bum a cigarette off people.  

After that?  I was totally fine.  To the point that my last year, when I was taking a sculpture/modeling class, a guy I knew from the campus coffee house told me he was looking for modeling work and I told him him to check with the professor for that class.  And a couple of weeks later?  There's Ernie, butt naked, posing for quickie stuff while we were working with clay over a wire armature -- and oh MY, was he -- as I think ex-military -- buff!   And the fact it was someone I'd known for several years at that point didn't freak me out at ALL, and I was like "So, you got the gig!  Cool!"

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[yazeh]

@inkstainedruth I had the same experience when I went to Finland. In a public sauna  You could write a slice of life, short stories and publish them on amazon, with your own illustration