Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Highlander on April 25, 2013, 13:07:55 PM
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Pretentious twats who organise the Turner Prize. This from the BBC website
According to the prize's organisers, Yiadom-Boakye's "intriguing" paintings "appear traditional but are in fact much more innovative".
"Her portraits of imaginary people use invented pre-histories and raise pertinent questions about how we read pictures in general, particularly with regard to black subjects."
Have a listen to yourselves will you. Aggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh :( :( :(
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Emperor's new clothes springs to mind.
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Hi H
Up to your art criticism critique game again, are you? Here's a challenge for you. What do you make of this imagined portrait of a real person? I came across it recently in regard to another thread. What sort of occupation do you suppose this person had? Would you like to hazard a guess at his identity?
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a138/ColwynJones/Anon_zpsb270982c.jpg)
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I love a good anthropomorphism. ;-)
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What you do on a Saturday night is completely your own business.
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Was he a mobile barber.
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The portrait was painted a couple of hundred years before the term "anthropomorphism" was coined. But only a decade or so before "mobile".
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Portraits of imaginary people?? Do me a favour
??? ???
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Yeah I bet it was supposed to be someone but turned out nothing like them, so he went for the old 'imaginary person' excuse.
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It's the perfect image of the chap in question. Better than a photograph. But then I suppose Scotsmen might have a problem identifying him.
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George - Saint - not Rimmer
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Well done H. The big clue is the dragon in the left hand corner that has the top of the "barbers pole" (otherwise CBF member Lance) sticking out of it. The picture was painted by Carlo Crivelli in 1472. I very much doubt that an imaginary portrait of a Roman soldier and officer, and England's patron saint, would look anything like this if painted in (say) the nineteenth century - let alone today. Interesting how different generations perceive the ideal of manliness and heroism differently.
This probably raised pertinent questions about how we read pictures.
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Is he a professional jouster?
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George - Saint - not Rimmer
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/04/26/tu7yve6e.jpg)
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I know who it is. It's a picture that does not portray the image that most people expect of this person and there is one particular animal that is always portrayed with him that is missing. I will not spoil the fun and spill the beans.
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Two late Rimms spoilt the fun....
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I know who it is. It's a picture that does not portray the image that most people expect of this person and there is one particular animal that is always portrayed with him that is missing. I will not spoil the fun and spill the beans.
Jacqui - have you actually read my post of 17:37:40 ;)
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No...can you every forgive me....
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of course with great pleasure :)