Doctor Omega
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Who are your favourite famous artists?
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Review Famous Artists!
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Who are your favourite famous artists?
Doctor Omega
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What's the deal with this painting?
And could there be a painting out there that is actually more deserving of all that acclaim than this one?
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Doctor Omega
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And I have to now go away and think about British Cinema a bit more! A fair trade off, Carol! Lol. 
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OK (just nipped away to check some vital background facts)
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Acclaimed, clearly, because it features twice in the Whoverse (still not too sure I like that abbreviation, but it'll do). City of Death (Tom Baker's Doctor in 1979) and Sarah Jane's Revenge of the Mona Lisa in 2009.
Oh, the actual painting, I hear you insist: aesthetic gurus insist it's partly her assymmetry that draws us in to figure out why the view over her left and right shoulders don't quite match up, so our brains decide to concentrate on her, instead. Come-to-bed eyes (or just got purring out of someone's). Looking straight at you, when profiles and angled poses were much more common. She's looking back at YOU and she seems to like what she sees!
Just a hint of cleavage and that ready-to-slip-off-the-shoulder drapery.
And Leonado's sfummato - smokey/ fuzzy edges that means she is -literally - easy on the eye. Straight gentlemen here would have to tell me if she is particularly attractive (try asking me about Michaelangelo's David instead) though the model gets pretty much the same rendition as his Madonnas and angels, but with out the complications of religiousness or baby-Jesus-wrangling distracting from the one-to-one between viewer and sitter.
I'm more of a quattrocento girl to be honest; I'll have another little think about other runners and riders...but enough for now. probably.
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Acclaimed, clearly, because it features twice in the Whoverse (still not too sure I like that abbreviation, but it'll do). City of Death (Tom Baker's Doctor in 1979) and Sarah Jane's Revenge of the Mona Lisa in 2009.
Oh, the actual painting, I hear you insist: aesthetic gurus insist it's partly her assymmetry that draws us in to figure out why the view over her left and right shoulders don't quite match up, so our brains decide to concentrate on her, instead. Come-to-bed eyes (or just got purring out of someone's). Looking straight at you, when profiles and angled poses were much more common. She's looking back at YOU and she seems to like what she sees!
Just a hint of cleavage and that ready-to-slip-off-the-shoulder drapery.
And Leonado's sfummato - smokey/ fuzzy edges that means she is -literally - easy on the eye. Straight gentlemen here would have to tell me if she is particularly attractive (try asking me about Michaelangelo's David instead) though the model gets pretty much the same rendition as his Madonnas and angels, but with out the complications of religiousness or baby-Jesus-wrangling distracting from the one-to-one between viewer and sitter.
I'm more of a quattrocento girl to be honest; I'll have another little think about other runners and riders...but enough for now. probably.
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Doctor Omega
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Who are your favourite famous artists?
Doctor Omega
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Hull Banksy mural 'should be cleaned off'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-42844953
A mural believed to be by artist Banksy should be removed from a disused Hull bridge, a local councillor has claimed.
The stencilled design depicts a child carrying a wooden sword with a pencil attached to the end.
Images of the mural were shared on Banksy's official Instagram account on Friday.
Conservative councillor John Abbott said Banky's work did not compare with "real art" in the city gallery.
"I think that should be cleaned off. It should be photographed and the photograph kept because Banksy is not without talent," said Mr Abbott.
"But to compare Banksy for example with some of the real art in the Ferens Art Gallery, which is quite mind-bogglingly brilliant at times, is, shall we say, to judge by two different sets of standards."
He said graffiti of any kind placed on walls should be removed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-42844953
A mural believed to be by artist Banksy should be removed from a disused Hull bridge, a local councillor has claimed.
The stencilled design depicts a child carrying a wooden sword with a pencil attached to the end.
Images of the mural were shared on Banksy's official Instagram account on Friday.
Conservative councillor John Abbott said Banky's work did not compare with "real art" in the city gallery.
"I think that should be cleaned off. It should be photographed and the photograph kept because Banksy is not without talent," said Mr Abbott.
"But to compare Banksy for example with some of the real art in the Ferens Art Gallery, which is quite mind-bogglingly brilliant at times, is, shall we say, to judge by two different sets of standards."
He said graffiti of any kind placed on walls should be removed.
I really like Wassily Kandinsky, Francis Bacon and Rudolf Schwarzkogler(he has some cool weird photos)