The Great Art Debate

[Lost Leopard Spot]

^ another of those modern politically correct people trying to persuade us that chinese and japanese are different things...

Look, I'm not trying to convince you that one lot live in slittyeyedom and other don't, just that one lot can paint better than the other lot. I'm quite sure that if you researched it hard enough the difference between Fowey-folk and Truro-people would be equally self-evident.

[Prufrock]

But not any Muslims?

[jaffka]

Can anyone recommend websites for purchasing prints and canvases?

A friend of mine says this site is good. http://www.art.co.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thank you for the link.

I did read it earlier but waited to see if there were any others provided.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

But not any Muslims?

What?
Maybe you don't understand this so I'll spell it out for you.
Things you cannot help being include: being Black, being a Romany, born in London, Ginger, Chinese, being blinded, Thalidomide affected.
Things you can help being include:being sun-tanned, a traveller, claiming asylum, being a Scientologist, being racist, being Muslim.

[thebish]

But not any Muslims?

What?
Maybe you don't understand this so I'll spell it out for you.
Things you cannot help being include: being Black, being a Romany, born in London, Ginger, Chinese, being blinded, Thalidomide affected.
Things you can help being include:being sun-tanned, a traveller, claiming asylum, being a Scientologist, being racist, being Muslim.

I think the second list might need rewriting... you can't help being claiming asylum?? you've let yourself down a bit there!

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

I've enjoyed the first 2 of 3 programmes on the art of the low countries - particularly episode 2, which starts in wonderful Utrecht (I lived there for a year) and covers the Dutch Golden Age. As a Dutch friend there once said to me - they were the original naval empire, and if a few things had been different, it could have been Dutch that became the world's lingua franca, not English.

iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _and_Bust/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(Watercolour fans will be disappointed, incidentally...)

[TANGODANCER]

I've enjoyed the first 2 of 3 programmes on the art of the low countries - particularly episode 2, which starts in wonderful Utrecht (I lived there for a year) and covers the Dutch Golden Age. As a Dutch friend there once said to me - they were the original naval empire, and if a few things had been different, it could have been Dutch that became the world's lingua franca, not English.

iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... _and_Bust/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(Watercolour fans will be disappointed, incidentally...)

No reason to be disappointed, Mummy. No denying that most of the world's great painings are in oils.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

But not any Muslims?

What?
Maybe you don't understand this so I'll spell it out for you.
Things you cannot help being include: being Black, being a Romany, born in London, Ginger, Chinese, being blinded, Thalidomide affected.
Things you can help being include:being sun-tanned, a traveller, claiming asylum, being a Scientologist, being racist, being Muslim.

I think the second list might need rewriting... you can't help being claiming asylum?? you've let yourself down a bit there!

You can't help letting yourself down a bit, either.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uui8c72MDc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

There's a strange bloke being all wooden in this trailer for a programme on Pop Art going out at 7pm on Freeview and Sky tomorrow night.

[thebish]

that art career is taking off! go boy!

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

that art career is taking off! go boy!

I'm mortified with how frightened I look, but it was made under very stressed conditions! Can't wait to do more and improve.

[Montreal Wanderer]

that art career is taking off! go boy!

I'm mortified with how frightened I look, but it was made under very stressed conditions! Can't wait to do more and improve.

That was it? Three seconds? I hadn't even got my glasses on properly! The more you do the more relaxed you become btw so I'm sure you'll be waltzing through these things soon.

[Athers]

Excellent use of the politician's 'thumb-press' !

[Prufrock]

Ha exactly my first reaction too. And boy can his eyebrows act !

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Excellent use of the politician's 'thumb-press' !

I don't think it's a recurring motif throughout the 20-minute programme.

Perhaps there will be a link to the full version once it's gone out, Monty.

[bobo the clown]

that art career is taking off! go boy!

I'm mortified with how frightened I look, but it was made under very stressed conditions! Can't wait to do more and improve.

You didn't to me .... very good. Remember us, won't you.

[thebish]

bob has a jumper with patches on you can borrow for your next show - it'll make you look like a proper academic...

[bobo the clown]

bobo has a jumper with patches on you can borrow for your next show - it'll make you look like a proper academic...

... & about 3 sizes too big. But he's in that London, I'm sure they can be found everywhere there.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Excellent use of the politician's 'thumb-press' !

I don't think it's a recurring motif throughout the 20-minute programme.

Perhaps there will be a link to the full version once it's gone out, Monty.

Let us know when a fuller version is available. Kinty thought you were marvelous.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

http://vimeo.com/83910533" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That's pretty cool.

A bit kitsch in places, but cool nonetheless!

(No watercolours, sadly.)