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11/19/09
(I hope I got that insignia title right, the Navy is haard)
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And, @Twerpsichore, I agree-what kind of generic crap is that caption? Could they not have just asked for a copy of the event program to see what ranks the women were?
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As someone who once erroneously referred to Marines as "troops" throughout a newspaper article, I can tell you that there is no sufficient term to classify the men and women who make up the armed forces. Except, uh, armed forces.
I suck at the military references.
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11/06/09
George W. Bush is famous for his attachment to a painting which he acquired after becoming a “born-again Christian.” It’s by W.H.D. Koerner and is entitled A Charge to Keep. Bush was so taken by it, he took the painting’s name for his own official autobiography.
[Bush] came to believe that the picture depicted the circuit-riders who spread Methodism across the Alleghenies in the nineteenth century. In other words, the cowboy who looked like Bush was a missionary of his own denomination.
Only that is not the title, message, or meaning of the painting. The artist, W.H.D. Koerner, executed it to illustrate a Western short story entitled “The Slipper Tongue,” published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916. The story is about a smooth-talking horse thief who is caught, and then escapes a lynch mob in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. The illustration depicts the thief fleeing his captors. In the magazine, the illustration bears the caption: “Had His Start Been Fifteen Minutes Longer He Would Not Have Been Caught.”
[www.harpers.org]
11/04/09
As for the Watusi piece, it looks different enough from late Matisse where I don't give a damn. It's nothing special, but I don't see why anyone should have a stick up their ass about it. It's art. Don't take it so seriously (says the person with an Art History degree). #artssake
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(can you tell I studied Latin?) #artssake
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I just don't think the critics get it. #artssake
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And a Public Enemy poster. And maybe one of Eminem, to balance it out.
Now I'm curious as to what they had on the wall in the East Wing in GWB's White House.
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I wouldn't mind the painting in controversy, if it's been sent back... #artssake
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Or did he steal it? #artssake
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she will wear her trousers rolled
and her head it will explolled. #artssake
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Looks can deceive, and what seems simple in art is often extremely difficult to accomplish. Kind of like any other field, where the masters make it look so easy that the neophytes assume it is. #artssake