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Archaeologist Discovers Lost Arms of Venus De Milo
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Posted on 11/13/2002 2:02:19 PM PST by Rodney King
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To: Paul Atreides
lol
To: Rodney King
Well, assuming they could carbon date marble, it's not unheard of for statues to be out of proportion. One of the most famous examples of this is da Vinci's David. He has a huge hands, out of proportion to the rest of his (ahem) body. Anyway, from what I recall, da Vinci did that to help keep David balanced and not tip over.
To: Rodney King
Its hard to believe someone so talented in anatomy would have such trouble keeping the fingers in proportion, notes Campbell Hauser, the archaeologist who discovered the statues freakish limbs. Instead of looking like the hands of a goddess, they look like those of a plumber!
Which might explain why the arms were cut off in the first place.
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posted on
11/13/2002 2:26:42 PM PST
by
Bush2000
To: aristeides
Three words: Weekly World News.
To: Aggie Mama
WHOOPS! I meant Michelangelo!
To: aristeides
How would the arms end up in Croatia? Arms smugglers.
To: Aggie Mama
WHOOPS! I meant Michelangelo! Yet again further evidence if our efforts to keep our school well stocked with brilliance, (assuming it's passed down)..
Pookie & ME ('86)
To: Jagdgewehr
At first I was concerned that the UN would step in....
but it seems they are only interested in stopping the
flow of "small arms".
Hehe, at least they didn't say she had "short arm"s.
The upcoming court case will be a real fight, let us pray
for those lawyers who go in arms way.
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posted on
11/13/2002 2:37:51 PM PST
by
tet68
To: Pookie Me
WHOOPS! I meant of, not if!
To: Rodney King
Restore the arms.
Now. Get your scuba gear over to Samothrace and find the rest of the Victory.
To: Jagdgewehr
"Arms Smugglers"LOL! Too much!
When I saw the line about "HAM HANDS" I wondered if Janet "The Wookie" Reno was the model, but I'm not sure she's that old. Close, maybe.
To: Delbert
I like the Weekly World News..... Me too! One of my favorite stories was about the two headed man. One head got married and then discovered that his brother, the other head, was having an affair with his wife.
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posted on
11/13/2002 2:43:54 PM PST
by
PaulJ
To: Rodney King
This isn't a vanity!This story should be in Breaking Broken News!
To: Rodney King
The artist could have been haptic. Lowenfeld identified two artistic styles, visual and haptic.
Lowenfeld (1957) argues that recognition and encouragement of stylistic diversity can sustain a continuum of art activity. His theory was that by about age 12 the art expression of children falls into two categories - the haptic and the visual. The 'visual' student is an observer for whom careful and ordered representation of the details of what is observed is the criterion of artistic performance. For the 'haptic' student the world is experienced in muscular, sensory and kinaesthetic terms. Art is concerned with feeling and sensation rather than outward appearance.
Since the teaching of art is usually in visual terms with accurate observation of form a prime criterion of success, Lowenfeld claimed that the haptic student is penalised. He advocated the provision of a range of stimulation which might motivate all within the haptic-visual continuum and exposure of students to a range of art works, from the emotional and expressionist (the haptic mode) to the more customary representational and realistic. Thus, Lowenfeld and his followers maintain that if inherent stylistic tendencies in students are acknowledged and attended to, art education can continue uninterrupted.
Lowenfeld's blind haptic sculptors nearly always made the hands over-sized.
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11/13/2002 2:52:35 PM PST
by
Lady Jag
To: general_re
This was my favorite line in the story:
Art critics and historians are up in arms over this shocking find.
Very clever!
To: Rodney King
"The work was sponsored by amateur archeologist and movie star Eddie Murphy. He stated that he was enthused by the find, but that the hands looked normal to him."
To: Rodney King
An excerpt from Seinfeld, October 1996:
Jerry: She had man hands.
Elaine: Man hands?
Jerry: The hands of a man. It's like a creature out of Greek Mythology. I mean, she was like part woman, part horrible beast.
Elaine: Would you prefer it if she had no hands at all?
Jerry: Would she have hooks?
To: Larry Lucido
lol... Seinfeld. You beat me to it.
My family and I were in a Home Depot recently. When the woman working in the electrical department handed me some wire, I looked down and almost choked.
Then my 11 year old son says, "Dad? Dad? [wisper] Did you see? She has man hands!"
To: Rodney King
Instead of looking like the hands of a goddess, they look like those of a plumber! Nah, just turns out she looked married.
To: Rodney King
Claire Blume is said to have modelled for replacement arms for this statue, but that project was left up in the air when they banned the atmospheric testing of new Claire arms.
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