Hey Yves . . .

[Russ H]

Is it just me, or did your avatar morph into a different painting?

Just curious. I've been forgetting to get my Alzheimer's checkup, and this seemed like a good way to check my memory.

-Russ H.

 

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[Sparlin]

I think she just left the old one out in the rain. Same painting, it just looks different now

 

[yveskleinsky]

Is it just me, or did your avatar morph into a different painting?

Just curious. I've been forgetting to get my Alzheimer's checkup, and this seemed like a good way to check my memory.

-Russ H.

I knew if anyone would notice it would be you. ...Yes, this is a different painting--it's from his "Anthropométries" series. He never titled any of his work--his widow did after he died (little bit of trivia there.) This one is titles Anthropométrie de l´époque bleue (ANT 78), 1960. (Thanks to Wikipedia on that one--my memory is good, but not that good!)

I think she just left the old one out in the rain. Same painting, it just looks different now

Sigh. Sparlin, am I going to have to drag you to an art museum first thing when we meet?

...Maybe I'll make a point of finding a different painting every month. Hmm.

 

[kwerner]

HE!?! I thought with a name like Yves - he/she it would be a girl.

 

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[yveskleinsky]

HE!?! I thought with a name like Yves - he/she it would be a girl.

Yes, well, I suppose I like the ambiguity of it all--which is ironic as my real name is Dana, and when I was a kid I always hated the fact my name wasn't more feminine--and I swore that if I ever had a chance to pick another name for myself it would be something very feminine--but here we are.

...Yves Klein was French, and in France "Yves" is a male name--like Yves Saint Laurent for example.

 

[Sparlin]

Let's monetize this whole art thing. If you open a gallery one could charge some money. Then just have everyone cross their eyes while staring at a painting. That way you can charge twice the admission fee and they'll never know the difference

Have them close their eyes and rotate it 90 degrees each time. Call it an art show, "A New Perspective".

Ooooh oohh... give the audience some paint ball guns... Charge BIg Money for this, and call it... "Interactive Art: Be the artist"


Yes... I could get into this art thing


I have to admit... I've seen a blue whale so far, and an alien face. I'll keep looking.

Sigh. Sparlin, am I going to have to drag you to an art museum first thing when we meet?

...Maybe I'll make a point of finding a different painting every month. Hmm.

Deal

 

[yveskleinsky]

Let's monetize this whole art thing. If you open a gallery one could charge some money. Then just have everyone cross their eyes while staring at a painting. That way you can charge twice the admission fee and they'll never know the difference

Have them close their eyes and rotate it 90 degrees each time. Call it an art show, "A New Perspective".

Ooooh oohh... give the audience some paint ball guns... Charge BIg Money for this, and call it... "Interactive Art: Be the artist"


Yes... I could get into this art thing

Better yet, we could open a gallery, apply for governement grants, start a traveling exhibit called "The Deconstruction of Profiteering at the Sake of Humanity: A Modernist's Perspective of Globalization--The Artist as Art" (Really, you could insert any buzzwords/phrase in here as long as it has mass appeal and sounds quasi-intelligent, at least enough so to where people just smile and nod but don't question the show for fear of sounding ignorant.)

We could then do the whole paint ball gun thing and play "La Dolce Vida" on a large projection screen in the background on mute with a Miles Davis CD playing loudly, and ideally backwards. Of course we would need to wear all black and smoke cigarettes out of those long cigarette holders and not smile the whole time. ...So are you in?

 

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[Sparlin]

I'll do it... but only if I get to run back and forth in front of the "canvas" while they shoot paint balls. Oh... and I have to be wearing an outfit that looks like an American Flag (NO TIGHTS or Spandex). Cant' you just see the symbolism?

 

[yveskleinsky]

I love it! Sounds like a hell of a show!

 

[Halli]

I'd pay for that paintball thing :frocket: (insert paintball gun instead)

 

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